When the Show Must Go On: Getting Up There In Front of a Crowd

(Headshots are so fun. Mine is by St. Louis’s Jay Fram.)

Tonight (Monday) I’ll be at St. Louis’s Contemporary Art Museum, doing a reading/appearance with poet Matthew Olzmann (whom I haven’t yet met) as part of the River Styx Reading series. I haven’t been to the Contemporary Art Museum yet, so I’m very much looking forward to it. Museums of all sorts attract me, so I suspect I’ll be pretty comfortable there.

How do you feel about speaking in public?

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