A collaboration between St. Johns Books and the new St. Johns Farmers' Market, this event occurs each Saturday at noon during the market season.  Join us each week for fresh, luscious words from new and established Northwest poets in this series curated by Dan Raphael.

Today's host is David Abel, a founding organizer of the Spare Room reading series, and the editor/publisher of the Envelope broadside series. His most recent chapbook, Commonly, was published this spring by airfoil. He has been active in interdisciplinary projects in Portland for many years as a collaborator, curator, and performer. 

Also appearing:

Sam Lohmann is the publisher of Peaches & Bats, which moves from annual to semiannual frequency with the forthcoming issue. He is also the copublisher of the monthly email newsletter What We Are Learning.  He is the author of several chapbooks; Onlooking is forthcoming this summer from airfoil.

Allison Cobb is the author of the poetry collection Born2 from Chax Press, a chronicle of Los Alamos, New Mexico -- her birthplace and the home of the atomic bomb. Her work has been published widely, and she is the recipient of a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. She recently moved from Brooklyn, NY to Portland.