Great advice, Tim. Also, true about reciting slowly and practicing before you do a professional recording. I recited my First Books Panel poems from memory at West Chester (but had been practicing for weeks) and I was happy to be able to make eye contact with so many in the audience. As for mics, I prefer not to use them if possible (didn't use one at the Powwow reading in September), but if I do, you're right about getting there early and testing them out. Thanks for those lively stories, too, Tim. I can just imagine you standing in for your Dad. He must have been proud!
Jesse Anger has offered to record me reading some of my work at his studio next March
. My first "professional" recording! I'm really looking forward to it.