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Bob Sykora
@bobsykora.bsky.social
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| kansas city | mostly poetry |
| UTOPIANS IN LOVE (@gameoverbooks.bsky.social 2025) |
| co-host of @thelinebreak.bsky.social |
| editor @ garden party collective |

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Bob Sykora @bobsykora.bsky.social · Feb 14
Happy Valentine’s Day // The Utopians are SO in Love! // you can preorder my book here:

www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/utop...

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Text reads Tell someone you love them by preordering my book. Two cartoon hearts, one wearing a flower and both with great eye lashes, the other holding a copy of my book Utopians in Love Text says Preorder Utopians in Love today, overa bunch of candy hearts. The hearts read: The utopians are in love! Maybe my ass is good enough. My heart won’t be held down by history. History is longing. What absurdities can be imagined greater than institutions? Totes. Nice. My book cover hovers in the right hand upper corner Text reads: your parter doesn’t want flowers for Valentine’s Day They want you to preorder utopians in love by bob sykora from Game over Books, pink background, flowers on the bottom, 4 cartoon hearts, one giving a snappy finger point, the other holding flowers behind their back, and two that are like not in on these flowers they’re so sassy
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Watch me, @bobsykora.bsky.social, and other luminaries read in Words // Friends online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iedr...
Words // Friends Autumn 2025 Hosted by Sara Matson
YouTube video by Sara Matson
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October 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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thecorlew.bsky.social
hey, wanna watch some poetry?

maybe you want a reading with me, @micahbutonline.bsky.social , @sandrapoetry.bsky.social , @yoadrianididit.bsky.social , & @bobsykora.bsky.social ? music by @bnothing.bsky.social ?

YOU'RE IN LUCK

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The First Lazy & Entitled Poetry Reading
YouTube video by Lazy and Entitled Productions
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October 4, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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thecorlew.bsky.social
Friday Links is UP! Featuring @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social @bobsykora.bsky.social @delfanbaum.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social @davidjroth.bsky.social and MORE!

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Friday Links: Annihilation Edition – Lazy & Entitled
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October 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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yoadrianididit.bsky.social
A Bob Sykora poem opens the door for longing and then leans into love, but my every impulse when I arrive at longing is not to lean into possibility of love but to pull hard on the e-brake and fishtail into how improbable love is.
October 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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yoadrianididit.bsky.social
I tried to write a @bobsykora.bsky.social poem. Is this a Bob Sykora poem? Not really, but I was reading Utopians in Love by Bob Sykora and I said, "I want to write a Bob Sykora poem" and this was the result.
October 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
bobsykora.bsky.social
wow I missed so much not logging on here
October 6, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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do i want to be on here more???
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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from the preposterously great Stay Dead by Natalie Shapero
Long Week Talking I am ashamed to keep thinking of death as a chute that connects to the garbage. I know I should picture it more like the pneumatic tubes at banks of the past: you put in your name and your paper and up you go. I know a bank should be the operative metaphor for every facet of existence, every time. When I fail to liken anything to a bank, I must be tired. That's not the real me; that's the long week talking. Time for bed. Time for the open window and my head on the narrow pillow. The hectoring sky. The streetlight's beam is bright as the bright saved people see when they die, but I don't die—
September 18, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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new poetry & more new poetry

📚📚📚

#books #recommendations #poems
September 9, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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hi we made an audiobook baby:

bobsykora.bandcamp.com/album/utopia...
Utopians in Love, by Bob Sykora
51 track album
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August 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
bobsykora.bsky.social
Oh hi
Your poster of Carly Rae Jepsen holding the book Utopians in Love announcing the fall World Tour * Tuesday September 23: Words / Friends Online Reading * Saturday September 27: Northwest Arkansas Bookfest * Friday October 3: Turnsol Books 3rd Anniversary, Kansas City * Sunday October 19: Poets in Pajamas Online Reading * Saturday November 15: Bear Review e Vulpes Bastille, Kansas City บรออวาลทรไก่โอบือ • esents world four 2025 CARLY It neverendss RAE JEPSEN + BOB SYKORA UTOPIANS IN LOVE WORLD TOUR
August 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Just got to the part in The Core (2003) where DJ Qualls shows up as the best hacker in the world
August 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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I like when a poem will make feel like 🥸 but not when it'll make me feel like😶‍🌫️ if you know what I mean
August 6, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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73) Utopians In Love - Bob Sykora

@bobsykora.bsky.social #SealeyChallenge Day 4
August 5, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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hi my books has been out for 4 months here’s where you can find a copy
July 31, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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100% of the 4 reviews of my book on storygraph say it’s fast paced so it’s probably an excellent choice for the sealey challenge 💁🏻‍♂️

www.gameoverbooks.com/store/p/utop...
image of the story graph page for my book Utopians in Love continued story graph page for utopians in love with 4.33 star review and 100% fast pace scores
July 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Four poetry titles on sale for $10 each, now through Thursday. If we sell a bunch of copies at $10 we won’t really make much money but a bunch more people will have these books. Good trade off.
Malarkeybooks.com/store
Poetry Sale With the Sealey, Challenge coming up we thought we'd do a sale: for the rest of July all our in stock poetry titles are on sale for just $10: Hair Shirt Adrian Sobol Thumbsucker by Kat Giordano You're Favorite Poet by Leigh Chadwick My Ardent Love for the Pencil by Vi Khi Nao* *won't arrive in time for Sealey but at least it's insanely cheap Malarkeybooks.com/store
July 29, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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thelinebreak.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE

sorry for the hiatus. we didn’t mean to. wanna read some poems?

🍎: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Spotty: open.spotify.com/episode/1I01...
poetry against the infection
Podcast Episode · The Line Break · 07/29/2025 · 1h 2m
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July 29, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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I had a chance to talk to @bobsykora.bsky.social about his WONDERFUL book, Utopians in Love, and @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social was kind enough to publish that conversation. Check it out below!!
www.vol1brooklyn.com/2025/07/10/u...
Utopias Everywhere: An Interview with Bob Sykora
I’ve been hearing about Bob Sykora, his work, and the things he gets up to for years. He was in the cohort that left the spring before I started an MFA at UMass Boston, and everyone spoke so …
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July 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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malarkeybooks.bsky.social
Amazon’s prime day profits are down 41%. To celebrate, until midnight you can get 41% off anything in our store with code 41% at malarkeybooks.com/store
Malarkey
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July 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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tired bobby
July 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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yoadrianididit.bsky.social
Doing an ANTI-PRIME PAY WHAT YOU WANT sale!

You want to pay a dollar? HAIR SHIRT
You want to pay a hundred dollars? HAIR SHIRT

Comes with a free NO CENTRISTS NO KINGS sticker.

DM me to get your HAIR SHIRT
Anti-prime sale! PAY WHAT YOU WANT! get HAIR SHIRT and a free sticker. DM ME.
July 9, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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2night in Boston
7/2 S4 / 21+ /vax req'd Workshop @ 6:30 / Doors @ 7:15 Open mic @ 8 / Feature @ 10 Bob Sykora ft. workshop by Kes Maro BOSTON POETRY SLAM @ THE CANTAB LOUNGE
July 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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Reading poems on the east coast starting tomorrow:
Schedule of readings on the east coast: utopians indove world tour east coastidatess Wednesday July 2: Boston Poetry Slam e The Cantab, 8 PM Friday July 4: Bash Poetry a Bookends Florence, MA, 7 PM Saturday July 5: Super Secret Reading Somerville, MA 8 PM, Details to come / DM for address Monday July 7: a Unnamable Books Brooklyn, 7 PM Tuesday July 8: @ Dada Literary Cafe, Ridgewood NYC, 8 PM Thursday July 10: Reading & Conversation w/ Jill McDonough & Lloyd Schwartz @ East End Books, Boston 6 PM
July 1, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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THE WORLD TOUR
June 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM