Poet Laureate Reads At Laguna Beach Festival Of Arts

LAGUNA BEACH, CA — Prepare to be entertained.

The Festival of Arts is celebrating its 85th anniversary on August 13, 2017. The celebration ceremony will include a poetry reading by Laguna Beach Poet Laureate, Kate Buckley.

Events will take place from 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Festival grounds located at 650 Laguna Canyon Road.

This event is open to the public and admission is free throughout the day. The Poet Laureate program is funded by the lodging establishments and City of Laguna Beach.

Laguna Beach's Poet Laureate was selected in April of 2017.

“I’d like to both educate and inspire the people of Laguna Beach to read, write and perform poetry, to show them how poetry and the literary arts immeasurably enrich our lives, our community and provide yet another filter through which to view reality,” Buckley said in an announcement to the Los Angeles Times.

“Poems help us get beneath the skin of things — to see things differently, to express the ineffable," Buckley said.

She is founder and chief executive of Buckley Media Group and is a certified life and corporate coach.

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