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
Iris Murdoch, “The Idea of Perfection”
Lewis Hyde’s The Gift
Lazy & Entitled podcast
The Poet in the World by Denise Levertov (and “The Untaught Teacher” essay)
Of Poetry Podcast 