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Don’t look at the dying

By Julia Vinograd on December 5, 2022
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Don’t look at the dying;you’ll only encourage them.The homeless, the hungry, the hurting,they’re not really thereand it’s not polite to

Julia Vinograd: poet laureate of the Berkeley Streets

By Alastair Boone on June 10, 2022
Arts and Culture   Features
Julia is often described as the unofficial poet laureate of the Berkeley streets. In 2004, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates dubbed June 5 “Julia Vinograd Day.”

Julia Vinograd: The People’s Park poet

By Lydia Gans on June 10, 2022
Arts and Culture   Features
In this article originally published in 2015, Julia talks to Lydia Gans about her poetry and how she got involved with the Berkeley street scene.

Anniversary party at People’s Park

By Julia Vinograd on November 8, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Drummers on stage, circles of people whirling,rags and feathers.We’re a tribe, we’re on the coverof National Geographic where native womencarry

Magic

By Julia Vinograd on October 5, 2021
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A piece by the legendary Berkeley poet, Julia Vinograd.

Eating A Mango

By Julia Vinograd on 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

By Julia Vinograd on 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

By Julia Vinograd on 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

Julia Vinograd: People’s Park poet

By Lydia Gans on May 1, 2019
Features   Uncategorized
This article was written in 2015 after I sat down and had a long conversation with Julia at Caffe Mediterraneum.

Downhill

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

Thunder Under the Sky

By Julia Vinograd on 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

By Julia Vinograd on 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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