Two Kansas poets will be the focus of the upcoming SPARK Artist Resource Exchange presentation.

Poets Linzi Garcia and Matt Cooper are scheduled to read from their latest collections of poetry at 6 p.m. Thursday at 146 S. Santa Fe Avenue.

Garcia can be found frolicking through sunflower fields, cemeteries, and bars across the states. She has been featured in Treading Unique Paths: Young Writers Anthology (VerbalEyze Press, 2016), 50 Haikus: Issue No. 12 (Prolific Press, 2017), and on the Philosophical Idiot poetry website (November, 2017). If you’re lucky, you can even find a haiku of hers in the gumball machine at The Raven Book Store in Lawrence or perhaps hidden in a nook in a tree near you. Garcia currently resides in Lindsborg, dreaming of Lawrence Ferlinghetti and New Orleans. She is always looking for invitations to new places where she can absorb new poetry, perspective, incomparable experiences, and quality whiskey.

Cooper is a senior English major at Wichita State University and lives in El Dorado. He writes for the WSU Sunflower newspaper and has studied at Butler Community College and Kansai Gaidai University.