Bob Sykora

Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016) and the forthcoming collection Utopians in Love (Game Over Books 2025). 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.

Bob Sykora

Bob Sykora is the author of the chapbook I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography (Nostrovia! 2016) and the forthcoming collection Utopians in Love (Game Over Books 2025). 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.

Publications

Collections:

Utopians in Love
Game Over Books - April 2025

Various Other Utopias
Ghost City Press Summer Microchap Series - July 2022

I Was Talking About Love–You Are Talking About Geography
Nostrovia! Press - July 2016

Recent Poems:

Crying on the Exercise Bike While Watching The Great British Bakeoff, February 2021 @ Peach Mag - February 2022Blueberries @ Third Point Press - November 2020I Have My First Vision in the Middle of the Night @ The Shore - June 2019Self Portrait as Utopian @ IDK Magazine - June 2018Three Poems @ Longleaf Review - April 2018Utopians in Love @ Cotton Xenomorph - January 2018Full Publication List

Etc:

Interview @ IDK Magazine - Summer 2018Dear Poetry Editor Interview @ Chicago Review of Books - July 2017Interview w/ Nostrovia! chabook contest winners @ Vagabond City Lit - December 2016Chapbook Review @ Beach Sloth - June 2016Chapbook Review @ Probably Crying Review*Book Review of Confessional Sci-fi: A Primer by Kirsten Kaschock @ Glass Poetry - April 2018Interview with Gail Mazur & Lloyd Schwartz @ Breakwater Review - June 2017Interview with Tyehimba Jess @ Breakwater Review - Spring 2016Interview with Ross Gay @ Breakwater Review - Fall 2015

Experiments:


Poems:

Peonies (New York Poem) @ Dead Peasants - ForthcomingTwo Poems @ Foootnote: A Literary Journal of History - ForthcomingCrying on the Exercise Bike While Watching The Great British Bakeoff, February 2021 @ Peach Mag - February 2022Poem Video @ Peach MagBlueberries @ Third Point Press - November 2020I Have My First Vision in the Middle of the Night @ The Shore - June 2019Anna Alcott at Fruitlands @ Woven Tale Press - November 2018Cities @ Reality Hands - October 2018 (offline)Self Portrait as Utopian @ IDK Magazine - June 2018Three Poems @ Longleaf Review - April 2018Utopians in Love @ Cotton Xenomorph - January 2018The Sky Doesn’t Have Any Answers @ Public Pool - October 2017 (offline)U-topia (No Place) @ Maudlin House - October 2017The Nature of New Hampshire and Everything @ Vagabond City Lit - October 2017Visiting Utopia # 2 @ Reservoir Lit - October 2017Fixer Upper @ The Shallow Ends - September 2017To Kevin on the Occasion of His Wedding @ Gulf Stream Lit - May 2017Visiting Utopia #4 @ Glass Poetry - May 2017Morning Offering @ Window Cat Press - September 2016The Wedding Reception @ Window Cat Press - September 2016Fourth of July Twilight Zone Marathon @ Window Cat Press - September 2016On Leaving Chicago @ Window Cat Press - September 2016Summer Poem @ Pine Hills Review - August 2016Daffodil @ Portland Review (print only) - June 2016Dunkin’ Donuts @ Wu-Wei Fashion - May 2016Interfacing with the Bae @ Wu-Wei Fashion - May 2016We Sleep with Computers @ Wu-Wei Fashion - May 2016You, Me, and Red Knots @ Words Dance - July 2015 (Offline)Clicking Through Karla’s Wedding Pics @ Rust + Moth - June 20153AM: The Four Seasons on the Radio @ District Lit - June 20152 Poems @ Literary Orphans - April 2015The Krampus @ The Merrimack Review - Spring 2015Philosophy 181: Being Human @ Surroundings East - Spring 2015 (print only)Oma at Night @ The Monarch Review - February 2015The Wander Years @ Devilfish Review - December 2014