Contributors to Tule Review, an annual literary journal published by the Sacramento Poetry Center Press, will read recent work and work from the new issue to celebrate its launch. Tule Review has been the literary journal of the Sacramento Poetry Center for twenty years. About five years ago, Tule became the flagship publication of Sacramento Poetry Center Press, a project formed by local poetry professors Tim Kahl and Brad Buchanan. SPC Press currently publishes Tule, full-length collections of poetry, and periodic regional anthologies.

Vincent Lombardo, a New Yorker out of Milan, will be joined by local poet Jane Rades for a reading January 19th, followed by an open mic. Lombardo’s poems have recently been included in the issue dedicated to contemporary poets in ‘Poets and Poetry’, Italy’s national magazine published in Rome. His work has included the cycles ‘Trees and Silence’ and ‘River Poetry’, as well as portions of the knightly epic ‘Order of the Roaring Stars’, wherein the figure of Parsifal, man’s ‘pure fool’ saviour is a dalmation, borrowing from Schopenhauer’s concerns for animal welfare, as taken up by Richard Wagner’s animalism and anti-vivisection beliefs.   Lombardo is also a dramatist and a mime.  He has lived several decades in Milan where he was originally taken on a Fulbright grant to work in the late 1970’s, to collaborate in the stage directing department of Teatro alla Scala. Jane Rades is a long-time San Franciscan, whose quiet,…