Episode 92: Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias)

Listen: On Spotify, Apple, Google, and elsewhere

Purchase: Utopians in Love (Game Over Books, 2025)

Read: “Self Portrait as Utopian” (IDK Magazine)


Bob Sykora is the author of the collection Utopians in Love (Game Over Books 2025) and the chapbook I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016). A graduate of the UMass Boston MFA program, he teaches at community college, edits with Garden Party Collective, co-hosts The Line Break podcast, and curates the KC Poetry Calendar.

Recommended Reading:

The Village by M. Night Shyamalan

Boston’s Athenaeum

Thalia Field

Susan Howe

Iris Murdoch, “The Idea of Perfection”

Lewis Hyde’s The Gift

Lazy & Entitled podcast

The Line Break Podcast

The Poet in the World by Denise Levertov (and “The Untaught Teacher” essay)