Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, reads from her book at the June 10 publishing party. Princess ...

Marmots aren’t the only local wildlife Sheffield has written about. “I am as much a naturalist as I am a poet,” said ...

Baseball fans might read “Casey at the Bat.” Runners have “To an Athlete Dying Young.” Basketball star Kobe Bryant wrote an ...

Brian Wilson, the Beach Boys’ visionary and fragile leader whose genius for melody, arrangements and wide-eyed self-expression inspired “Good Vibrations,” “California Girls” and other ...

The Oakland Public Library recently celebrated its seven finalists for the 2025 Youth Poet Laureate competition ... She has her own independent news site and blog that covers the delightfully ...

May 21, 2025 • We asked some of our trusted critics which upcoming books they are most looking forward to. Here are the fiction and nonfiction titles they picked. November 25, 2024 • Books We ...