Saturday, October 19, 8:00pm: Julia Vinograd Book Release — Selected Works and Tribute Anthology at Gents Barber Club, 3041 24th St, San Francisco, CA. October 14, 2019 – Posted in: Events

Zeitgeist Press is thrilled to present two new Julia Vinograd books at LitQuake’s Babar in Exile FREE event.

• A Symphony for Broken Instruments, a seminal collection of selected works along with a big section of previously unpublished poems. Never before has such a tour de force of Vinograd’s work been together in one volume, which is 384 pages in total, including art by Deborah Vinograd and Chris Trian.

• At the same event, editor Deborah Fruchey presents Our Lady of Telegraph Avenue, the new tribute anthology of writing to, for, and about Julia Vinograd by a slew of friends and local writers.

Please join us for a reading and festive release of books honoring the work of a remarkable woman who energized and shaped the poetry of the SF Bay Area for over fifty years.

Date: Saturday, October 19, 2019 8:00 p.m.
Place: Gents Barber Club 3041 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Readings By: Richard Loranger, Deborah Fruchey, Jan Steckel, Bruce Isaacson, Paul Corman Roberts, and Steve Arntson
Contact: Bruce Isaacson, Publisher (702) 205-7100 info@zeitgeist-press.com, or Richard Loranger, 917-399-8743, hello@richardloranger.com
Cost: Free and open to the public.

ABOUT JULIA VINOGRAD

Julia Vinograd, the popular poet identified with the streets of Berkeley, California, published 70 books during her life (1943-2018). She was raised in Pasadena and Berkeley, where her mother was a poet and English Professor. Her father was announced to win a Nobel Prize in Biochemistry but passed away before the award. Julia earned a B.A. at U.C. Berkeley and an M.F.A. at the famed Iowa Writer’s Workshop at the University of Iowa. She won an American Book award from the Before Columbus Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and a “Lifetime Achievement Award as Berkeley’s unofficial Poet Laureate.” She was also famed as the Bubble Lady for her love of blowing soap bubbles for children on Telegraph Avenue. Julia is a poetry icon in a city famed for its poets. This book represents a life’s work of street poems that are accessible, charming, and deeply human.