The Carl Sandburg poem “Chicago” has been a beloved local anthem for more than a century.

January is packed with romance, thrills, and action, with some brilliant books to kick off 2026. Here are our favorites.

In the depths of winter there’s nothing better than an adventure you can enjoy from the warmth of home, and Caskey Russell’s “The Door on the Sea” is a perfect read for long, dark nights.

The true pleasure of literature can be found in demanding works such as Your Name Here, by Helen DeWitt and Ilya Gridneff.

Local Hyundai owners will now have to travel to Gilroy to service or purchase a car, after the Hyundai dealership in Seaside abruptly closed its doors on Friday, leaving many people unemployed.“Now ...

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...

Patricia Smith, a Princeton professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts, has received a National Book Award, the 2025 award for poetry, for “The Intentions of Thunder: New and ...

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...

“Don’t do this in the wild,” Beth Lechleitner said as she posed near a bear sculpture in Loveland on Monday to talk about her latest book “Bear Days,” a collection of haibun style poems about her ...

We’re still riding the high of our first-ever Seaside to Sierra rally. In late September, we cruised through California and experienced the best that the Golden State has to offer. A passionate crew ...

Two new collections, “Night Watch” by Kevin Young and “Startlement: New and Selected Poems” by Ada Limón, showcase strikingly different voices in contemporary poetry. Young, poetry editor for the New ...

Shannon Gramse’s “Lost Last Poems” is no ordinary poetry book, and there is neither anything “lost” nor “last” about the poems. Instead, the book is based upon a clever and entertaining conceit. In ...