Don’t look at the dying
By Julia Vinograd on 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
Julia Vinograd: poet laureate of the Berkeley Streets
By Alastair Boone on 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 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 Drummers on stage, circles of people whirling,rags and feathers.We’re a tribe, we’re on the coverof National Geographic where native womencarry
Eating A Mango
By Julia Vinograd on 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 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 (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 This article was written in 2015 after I sat down and had a long conversation with Julia at Caffe Mediterraneum.
Thunder Under the Sky
By Julia Vinograd on 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 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