In 2026, Danielle Hanson was named an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow. Danielle Hanson’s Sidewalk Poetry Project is an interactive public art initiative designed to imprint poems into city parks’ sidewalks. The project embeds short poems into sidewalks whenever new concrete is poured, allowing residents and visitors to encounter poetry in public parks around Costa Mesa while creating a permanent literary presence in the community and making poetry accessible for all.