LUCAS — One2one and Eric Abraham’s Flying Pig Studio & Gallery in Lucas will host a public event with Wyatt Townley, Poet Laureate of Kansas, Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. at one2one/Eric Abraham’s Flying Pig Studio & Gallery, 123 S. Main, Lucas.

The free program is made possible by the Kansas Humanities Council.

A reception will follow Townley’s reading.

The one2one space will have a collaborative group exhibition on display titled “Pop-Machine” with works from current Visiting Artist Rebecca Parks-Ramage, Artist in Residence Director Peter Max Lawrence and Evelyn Wray of Luray, Kan.

Wyatt Townley is a widely published, nationally known poet and a fourth-generation Kansan.

Her work has been featured on National Public Radio’s “The Writer’s Almanac” with Garrison Keillor, in US Poet Laureate Emeritus Ted Kooser’s “American Life in Poetry” column, and published in journals ranging from “The Paris Review” to “Newsweek.”

She has published three collections of poetry: “The Breathing Field” (Little Brown), “Perfectly Normal” (The Smith), and “The Afterlives of Trees” (Woodley Press), which is a Kansas Notable Book and winner of the Nelson Poetry Book Award.

A founding board member of The Writers Place in Kansas City, Missouri, Townley has served as a teaching artist with Young Audiences and Writers in the Schools program, and has appeared at writers’ conferences and literary festivals in the Midwest and Northeast.

For more information about Townley’s visit in Lucas, call the one2one at (913)-449-8869 or email [email protected].