bob sykora
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). He lives in Kansas City, where he teaches at community college, edits with Garden Party Collective, co-hosts The Line Break podcast, and curates the KC Poetry Calendar.
Collections:
Some Poems:
Crying on the Exercise Bike While Watching The Great British Bakeoff
@ 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 2018
Poems:
Peonies (New York Poem) @ Dead Peasants - Summer 2024Two Poems @ Foootnote: A Literary Journal of History - December 2023Crying 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 2018Self 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 2015Clicking Through Karla’s Wedding Pics @ Rust + Moth - June 20153 AM: 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 (print only) - Spring 2015Oma at Night @ The Monarch Review - February 2015The Wander Years @ Devilfish Review - December 2014
Other Stuff
Utopian Broadside
from New Material Books
Press
Utopias Everywhere: An Interview with Bob Sykora @ Vol. 1 Brooklyn
July 2025Reconsidering American utopianism @ KC Studio
July 2025Summer Reading Recommendations @ The Pitch
May 2025On Bob Sykora’s Utopians in Love by Joyce Peseroff
April 2025Not Fit for Composition Podcast
June 2024Of Poetry / Linebreak Podcast Crossover w/ Han VanderHart
March 2024Bread & Poetry Podcast w/ Diannely Antigua
January 2023Interview @ 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
June 2016
Etc.
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
Readings
East End Books Boston Reading w/ Jill McDonough and Lloyd Schwartz Summer 2025
Words / Friends Autumn 2025 Reading
Boston Poetry Slam Summer 2025
Lazy & Entitled Reading, Chicago June 2025
The Raven in Lawrence, KS w/ Melissa Ferrer Civil, April 2025
Strings, Drums, Poetry at the Bunker center for the Arts, Summer 2023
Ghost City Press Summer Series Reading 2022