Lift Bridge Book Shop

Make a fancy Valentine for someone special and a Valentine box for yourself!  Cost is $5.

This month we are reading a classic - compassionate, dramatic and deeply moving it takes readers to the roots of human behavior.

Compelling ... a page-turning love story.

This event has been postponed due to inclement weather in the NYC area.  It will be rescheduled later in the semester.Prior to teaching, James Hoch was a
dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker and shepherd. His poems
have appeared in Slate, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg, Ninth Letter,
Carolina Quarterly, Virginia Quarterly Review and many others. They
have been nominated many times for the Pushcart Prize. He is the
recipient of fellowships and scholarships from Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and
Summer Literary Seminars, and received a 2007 NEA grant as well as a
grant from the PA Council on the Arts. Miscreants will be published by WW Norton in June, 2007. A Parade of Hands
won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in March 2003 by
Silverfish Review Press. Originally from Collingswood, NJ, he resides
in Mahwah, NJ with his wife and son. He has taught at Franklin and
Marshall College and Lynchburg College. Currently, he teaches at Ramapo
College of NJ.

"One of the best science fiction novels of all times."

Staged readings will be held at Lift Bridge Book Shop by Citizen's Theatre Troupe.  Performed  will be "Fancy Me Mad" written by Vincent J. Carbone and directed by Derrick A. Belkin.

 This event is free and open to the public.  For more information call Joe at (585) 637 2260 or jhoffman@liftbridgebooks.com

Staged readings will be held at Lift Bridge Book Shop by Citizen's
Theatre Troupe.  Performed  will be "Fancy Me Mad" written by Vincent
J. Carbone and directed by Derrick A. Belkin.

This event is free and open to the public.  For more information call Joe at (585) 637 2260 or jhoffman@liftbridgebooks.com

Celebrate Love at our Preschool program for 3-5 year olds.  Make your reservations early as materials are prepared for each child.  Cost is $5 which includes a coupon.

Read any book about the American Revolution in New York State and come ready to share your opinion.

Please join us for the Publication Celebration of "Five Seasons", the latest anthology published by the Rochester Area Haiku Group.  Several of the poets in the collection will read their work, including Michael Ketchek, Pamela Babusci, Deb Koen, Carolyn Coit Dancy, Deanna Tiefental, and Frank Judge. 

The reading will be followed by refreshments and an informal discussion.  Copies of the book will be available for purchase and signing.  Free and open to the public.

You can celebrate Pet Day even if you don't have one!  For ages 7-12.  Call to register.  Materials are prepared for each child.

Sonja’s writing has been honored
with a NYFA Fellowship, an Iowa Review Award, Pushcart Prize
nomination, and grants from Vermont Studio Center and The Deming Fund
for Women. Her work has appeared in some of the country's finest
literary journals, including the Iowa Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,
Southeast Review, AGNI, the Spoon River Poetry Review, BREVITY, Gulf
Coast, and is anthologized in several texts on writing, including SHORT
TAKES, THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER, and THE CURIOUS WRITER. Sonja holds an
MFA from the University of New Orleans and an M.S. Ed. from SUNY
Brockport. She runs writing workshops locally, provides manuscript consultations, and teaches in UCLA Extension's Writing Program.

Sonja's first book, GHOSTBREAD, won an AWP Book Prize for Nonfiction.

Besides writing, Sonja enjoys snapping photos, hiking in bogs, and is
currently hooked on English murder mysteries. She was born and raised
in western New York State, where she now lives with her two overweight
tabbies and her husband, the artist Jim Mott.

All are welcome to join our discussion of Edgar Allan Poe.  Free and open to the public.