In its second year, the Market Day Poetry Series, hosted by St. Johns Booksellers in conjunction with the St Johns Farmers Market, takes place every Saturday of the Market, June 5th through September 25th. Series coordinator dan raphael, who has been arranging poetry readings in Portland since the late 70’s, finds poets–many of whom are involved in other reading series–to host individual readings and find two other co-readers. This provides a broad diversity of readers from Portland’s rich and multi-styled poetry scene. This week's host, Ric Vrana, read as a guest in last year's Market Day series and we're delighted to have him return as host of today's reading by "Three Men of a Certain Age."  His sometimes gently, sometimes bitingly, sometimes howlingly funny verse is available in his chapbook Brain Screams.