Who? What? Where? When?

The Stories We Tell
Poetry Readings
Featuring works by Raina Lauren Fields and Ross Losapio


Sunday, July 12, 2009 at 4pm
Mina's Art Gallery
815 W. 36th Street
Baltimore, MD 21211
(410) 732-4258

July 26, 2009 at 2pm
Big Blue Bookstore
551 Carpenter Lane
Philadelphia, PA 19119
(215) 844-1870

Readings are free and open to the public.
Light refreshments will be provided. Books will be sold.

About the poets:


Raina Lauren Fields is Philadelphia native and 2008 graduate of Loyola College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Writing and Music. She has been awarded first place from the Academy of American Poets (Loyola College) twice and her work has appeared in Loyola’s publications The Garland and Warnings. In addition, her poetry has been published in Poet’s Ink, apt, and Gargoyle. A Mother Is…, her self-published chapbook, was created to commemorate a mother's untimely demise. She will attend the Master of Fine Arts Poetry program at Virginia Tech, starting in fall 2009.


Ross Losapio is a New Jersey native and graduate of Loyola College in Maryland. There, he was awarded honorable mention by the Academy of American Poets twice and had his work appear in the school's publications The Garland and Warnings. His poetry has also been published in Soundings East and, most recently, in the Summer 2009 issue of Italian Americana. The Measure of Healing, his self-published chapbook, explores the birth and childhood of a brother born with aplasia.

For more information, email raina.fields@gmail.com or ralosapio@gmail.com.