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   2013 Events Friday-Wednesday, January 4-9 Stonecoast MFA Residency Freeport, Maine Friday-Saturday, January 18-21 Peter Murphy's Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway Galloway, New Jersey Wednesday-Sunday, March 6-10 AWP Conference Reading Boston, MA Wednesday-Sunday, June 12-16 Chautauqua Writers’ Festival Chautauqua, NY