{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Of Poetry Podcast","title":"Bob Sykora (Of the Poet and the Archive, Love and Community, and the Lens of American Utopias)","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/7c3ac522\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3903,"description":"Purchase: Utopians in Love (Game Over Books, 2025)\nRead: \"Self Portrait as Utopian\" (IDK Magazine)\n\nBob 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.\n\nRecommended Reading:\nThe Village by M. Night Shyamalan\nBoston's Athenaeum \nThalia Field\nSusan Howe\nIris Murdoch, \"The Idea of Perfection\"\nLewis Hyde's The Gift\nLazy & Entitled podcast\nThe Line Break Podcast\nThe Poet in the World by Denise Levertov (and \"The Untaught Teacher\" essay)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/C_3iRDpviix2e1C6k3X2VoCWRIenXQVKuF75ttfn6q0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMzk1/Zjk2ZTQwMjBhNjFi/NjA5YjdlNzZhZTAx/MThmNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}