Julia Vinograd

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Julia Vinograd
Born(1943-12-11)December 11, 1943
American Book Award

Julia Shalett Vinograd (December 11, 1943[1] – December 5, 2018[2]) was a poet. She is well known as "The Bubble Lady" to the Telegraph Avenue community of Berkeley, California, a moniker she gained from blowing bubbles at the People's Park demonstrations in 1969.[3] Vinograd is depicted blowing bubbles in the People's Park Mural off of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.[4]

Education

Vinograd was born in

Iowa Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa.[5]

Poetry

Vinograd became part of the "street culture" of Berkeley beginning in the 1960s and was often called a "street poet". She was also an active participant in the influential poetry slam scene at Cafe Babar in the Mission District from the mid-Eighters through the 1990s, where she yelled "Staaaaaarting!" at the beginning of each night of poetry.[6]

She published numerous books of poetry and her work has been included in a number of anthologies, including Berkeley! A Literary Tribute.[7] She also edited the anthology New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1: The Babarians of San Francisco alongside David Lerner and Alan Allen.[8] She was also profiled in Contemporary Authors.[9]

Honors and awards

Vinograd was awarded a

American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation.[11]

The City of Berkeley, California, awarded her a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award. On June 5, 2004, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates declared that day to be "Julia Vinograd Day," for representing the spirit of Berkeley: "She gives us a voice when ours vanishes. She gives voice to the homeless, the street performers, the merchant, the coffee drinker, friends and foes alike, and her words, like a sharp knife, cut deep into the truth. She describes us as full of life, and love, and heartache. She makes us honest. We, the eccentric, the lonely, the broken are given a voice."[12][13] She has been called Berkeley's unofficial "poet laureate".[14]

A feature documentary is in production about Vinograd's life and work: Julia Vinograd: Between Spirit and Stone.

Bibliography

Recordings

  • Eye of the Hand: Selected Poetry by Julia Vinograd (audiobook on cassette). Michael Scott Studios. 1996.
  • Bubbles & Bones (Audiobook on Cassette). Michael Scott Studios. 1999.

Anthologies

References

  1. ^ "Julia Shalett Vinograd – California Birth Index, 1905–1995". FamilySearch. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  2. ^ Sam Whiting (December 6, 2018). "Julia Vinograd, Berkeley poet known as the Bubble Lady, dies". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  3. ^ Tom Dalzell. "Julia Vinograd and her visual creativity". Retrieved November 10, 2018.
  4. ^ "Berkeley Historical Plaque Project – Telegraph Ave Mural". Berkeleyplaques.org. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  5. ^ Lydia Gans. "The Poet, the Police, and the Spirit of the Sixties". Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  6. ^ "Word Up: San Francisco's Spoken Word Scene Has Some of the Best Poets Working in America Today" by Cary Tennis, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 4, 1992, pages 37.
  7. ^ Berkeley! A Literary Tribute. Edited by Danielle La France. Introduction by Malcolm Margolin. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997, xv, 240 pp., paper)
  8. ^ New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1: The Babarians of San Francisco edited by David Lerner, Julia Vinograd and Alan Allen, Trafford Publishing, 2010.
  9. ^ "Julia Vinograd," Contemporary Authors, Gale Research, volume 26, 1997, pages 293-310.
  10. ^ Foust, Rebecca (2019) Poetry Sunday womensvoicesforchange.org.
  11. ^ Carol Feineman. "Berkeley poet to read during poetry series". Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  12. ^ Metropolis (September 20, 2014). "Zeitgeist Press". M.etropolis. Retrieved December 7, 2018.
  13. ^ Duncan, B. N. (October 2005). "Berkeley's Visionary Poet Laureate of the Streets". Street Spirit. American Friends Service Committee. Archived from the original on October 23, 2006. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
  14. ^ Dorothy Snodgrass. "Julia Vinograd: Berkeley's Poet Laureate". Retrieved November 2, 2018.

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