Julia Shalett Vinograd (December 11, 1943[1] – December 5, 2018[2]) was a poet. She was well known as "The Bubble Lady" to the Telegraph Avenue community ofBerkeley, California, a moniker she gained from blowing bubbles at thePeople's Park demonstrations in 1969.[3] Vinograd is depicted blowing bubbles in thePeople's Park Mural off of Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley.[4]
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 theMission District from the mid-1980s 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, includingBerkeley! A Literary Tribute.[7] She also edited the anthologyNew American Underground Poetry, Vol 1: The Babarians of San Francisco alongsideDavid Lerner and Alan Allen.[8] She was profiled inContemporary Authors.[9]
The City of Berkeley, California, awarded her a Poetry Lifetime Achievement Award. On June 5, 2004, Berkeley MayorTom 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]
When Even the Sky Hurts by Julia Vinograd; Chris Trian. Zeitgeist Press. 2010.
David Lerner; Julia Vinograd; Alan Allen, eds. (2010).New American Underground Poetry, Volume 1, The Barbarians of San Francisco - Poets From Hells. Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing.ISBN9781412052702.
Falling Sky by Julia Vinograd; Chris Trian. Zeitgeist Press. 2011.ISBN978-0-929730-93-6.
Buttering the Wind by Julia Vinograd; Chris Trian. Zeitgeist Press. 2012.ISBN978-0-929730-98-1.
Occident: The Literary Magazine of the University of California at Berkeley. Associated Students of the University of California. Spring 1963.ASINB008NICNMO.{{cite journal}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)
Occident: The Literary Magazine of the University of California at Berkeley. Associated Students of the University of California. Fall 1965.ASINB002A6I4IW.{{cite journal}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)
Occident:The Literary Magazine of the University of California at Berkeley.III. Associated Students of the University of California. 1969.ASINB01ED1HLJY.{{cite journal}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)
Paul Foreman, ed. (1972).Hyperion, A Poetry Journal: Number 8.III (1). Thorp Springs Press.ASINB009HUTN34.{{cite journal}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)
Panjandrum: An Anthology of Poetry.V. San Francisco: Panjandrum Press. 1977.ASINB00XWVSDBM.{{cite journal}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)
Shirim, A Jewish Poetry Journal.III (11). Los Angeles: SHRIM Intermedia. 1984.ASINB008E8PMIU.{{cite journal}}:Missing or empty|title= (help)
Isaacson, Allen; Hastings, Eleanor; Queveda, Daniel, eds. (2011).Meet Your Monster: A Journal of Writing & Art By Notable Writers and 16 Young People. Zeitgeist Press. p. 92.ISBN978-0929730950.
^"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.
^Berkeley! A Literary Tribute. Edited by Danielle La France. Introduction by Malcolm Margolin. (Berkeley: Heyday Books, 1997, xv, 240 pp., paper)
^New American Underground Poetry, Vol 1: The Babarians of San Francisco edited by David Lerner, Julia Vinograd and Alan Allen, Trafford Publishing, 2010.
