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Costa Mesa poet laureate reports fall events, urges more park outreach

Costa Mesa Arts Commission · November 7, 2025
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Poet Laureate Daniel Hansen presented the arts commission with a summary of fall programming, saying the season included workshops, a Poetry in the Parks scavenger hunt across five parks, a well-attended Poetry Okey open-mic at ArtVenture and a broadside booth at Scarecrow Fest.

Poet Laureate Daniel Hansen presented the arts commission with a summary of fall programming on the literary arts calendar, describing workshops, a citywide scavenger-hunt project called Poetry in the Parks, a Poetry Okey open-mic at ArtVenture, and broadside activities at Scarecrow Fest.

Hansen said the Mesa Verde Library workshop had nine participants who read aloud, and that Poetry Okey at ArtVenture drew a steady line of 30 to 40 readers and roughly the same number of…

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