Join us at noon each market Saturday through 15 October, to enjoy a wide spectrum of expression from over 50 participating poets! Each reading is emceed by a different poet, who in turn selects guest
readers. It's like opening a new magazine each week!  The Market Day
Poetry Series is cosponsored by the St. Johns Farmers' Market, and
curated by Portland poet Dan Raphael. 

Lisa M. Steinman is a professor at Reed College and a co-editor of Hubbub. 
She has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the
Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Rockefeller
Foundation.  Steinman has published three books about poetry: Made in America from Yale University Press, Masters of Repetition from St. Martin's Press, and Invitation to Poetry (Blackwell, 2008).  She is also the author of five volumes of poetry: Lost Poems, All That Comes to Light, A Book of Other Days, Ordinary Songs, and most recently, Carslaw's Sequences (University of Tampa Press).

In addition to Floating Verses, Jim Shugrue is the author of twoprevious chapbook, Small Things Screaming (a finalist for the Oregon Book Award) an Icewater.  He has received a fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission and an Open Voice Award.  His work is widely published and anthologized.

Born and raised in Portland, Lex Runciman has lived most of his life in Oregon's Willamette Valley.  He holds graduate degrees from the writing programs at the University of Montana and the University of Utah.  Runciman taught for eleven years at Oregon State University and is now Professor of English at Linfield College, where he received the Edith Green Award in teaching in 1997.  His newest collection of poems is Starting from Anywhere (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2009).  He is also the author of three earlier books of poems: Luck (1981), The Admirations (1989) which won the Oregon Book Award, and Out of Town (2004).   He and Deborah Jane Berry Runciman have been married thirty-nine years and are the parents of two grown daughters.