Of Poetry Podcast

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)

What is Of Poetry Podcast?

Kitchen table conversations with poets, hosted by Han VanderHart.