Bob Sykora

@bobsykora.bsky.social

| kansas city | mostly poetry | | utopians in love @gameoverbooks.bsky.social| | co-host of @thelinebreak.bsky.social | | editor @ garden party collective | https://linktr.ee/bobsykora

finally had a chance to listen & so grateful to @hanvanderhart.bsky.social for the sweetness and thoughtfulness and laughs—I had great time when we recorded but a double delight to hear us spending time with the longer, more unwieldy poems in the book & all the places your reading of it took us!

Of Poetry Podcast@ofpoetrypodcast.bsky.social · 3w ago

Of Oneida, of heartbreak, of hotel rooms and mansions, of travelling to research poems, of Utopians & dragon flies & the seas turned to lemonade & &! Hear @bobsykora.bsky.social read from his gorgeous collection UTOPIANS IN LOVE @gameoverbooks.bsky.social 💙📚 Listen: share.transistor.fm/s/7c3ac522

Author photo of Bob Sykora in brown cableknit sweater and cover image of UTOPIANS IN LOVE

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Episode 92: Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias)
UTOPIANS IN LOVE
BOB SYKORA
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