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Street Spirit is an independent newspaper in the East Bay dedicated to covering homelessness and poverty from the perspective of those most impacted. Est 1995. A publication of Youth Spirit Artworks.

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Julia Vinograd

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Julia Vinograd was Berkeley’s informal “poet laureate.” Her poems about Telegraph Avenue and life in Berkeley in the late 60’s and beyond were beloved by many. She died in December, 2018.

Eating A Mango

May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
I am eating a mango with many paper towels, getting the sweet sticky stuff all over me. I am a child, eating a mudpie of the sun and not interested in all the things I’ll understand when I grow up.

Against Building Housing on People’s Park

May 1, 2019
Features   Uncategorized
There isn’t room There’s already 3 or 4 roommates knocking elbows inside each tulip and arguing whose turn it is

Street Musician

May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
(Enera Wilson) He sits on a blue egg crate under a street corner tree, His long crossed legs balancing a

Downhill

May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
I don’t have a home and I live here all the time.

Thunder Under the Sky

May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
It’s raining in the ruins. Carved Pillars holding up clouds. A cracked marble stage surrounded by crouched drummers. Thunder in

Selected poems by Julia Vinograd

January 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
On the Street I’m not here, don’t look at me.Don’t scream when your children look at me,do you think bad

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