Ina Coolbrith is an Oakland legend, our first public librarian and California’s first poet laureate. Now, in “Ina Coolbrith: The Bittersweet Song of California’s First Poet Laureate,” author and ...

I once lived in Northern California near a local landmark, a mountain named Mount Ina Coolbrith. It’s in the northern Sierra Nevada, and its eastern slopes border the sagebrush country that extends ...

"Wish we could settle it once and for all!" said David Alpaugh, a board member of the Ina Coolbrith Circle. Alpaugh's plea came after a noted historian had addressed the group and pronounced Coolbrith ...

SAN FRANCISCO - On a steep slope halfway up San Francisco's Russian Hill, neighborhood dog walkers and occasional tourists take in the spectacular views from a city park that bears the name of Ina ...

Ever since 1933 the Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize has been awarded for the best unpublished poem by a student at any of the University of California campuses, the University of the Pacific, ...