I have had occasion to read speeches, poems, literary texts of various sorts, and I assure you all that it is eminently possible to make as much eye contact as anyone could want with an audience, and to roll your head back, down or sideways, if that is what you want to do--and even to project great emotion with your voice, all while reading from a printed page--

The tricks for doing this sort of thing are generally taught in the first few days of a public speaking or interpretive reading class, and in performance classes for singers as well--