Thanks for all these notes and pointers, Tim, Carol, Catherine, and Charlotte.
A side issue, perhaps, but once in a while one has to decide between using a terrible sound system and trying to muster enough projection without it. Last night's benefit event was for a modest crowd, but in a coffee shop with a lot of ambient noise. The available mic and speakers produced, I'm sorry to say, a godawful metallic sound. Snap decision: to use or not to use? The poem I was reading needed an understated delivery, so I used them. Such is life. And poetry, and sound equipment, and food service.
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