Barbara Hurd     "Just as to be sloppy in a cave is to risk falling or damaging ancient formations, to be sloppy on the page is to risk an insight’s evaporating in mid-sentence. For most writers, discoveries are elusive and more likely to stay that way unless meticulously chosen words and graceful phrasing converge in a sentence that might get closer to saying what’s more true."     From Barbara Hurd’s “Tipping the Balance” in Landscapes with Figures Ed. Robert Root             Events/Readings   2010 Thursday, February 11 St. Mary’s College St. Mary’s, MD Thursday-Saturday, April 8-10 AWP Denver, CO May 30-June 11 Writing Workshop Haystack Mountain School of Crafts Deer Isle, Maine Thursday-Sunday, July 29-August 1 Nightsun Writers’ Conference Frostburg, MD Wednesday-Tuesday, August 4-10 Chatham College Pittsburgh, PA