Joshua Clover

Poet, scholar, and journalist Joshua Clover was born in Berkeley, California. An alumnus of Boston University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Clover has published several volumes of poetry, including Red Epic (2015), The Totality for Kids (2006), and Madonna anno domini (1997). His poems have also appeared three times in the Best American Poetry series. He has also written books of cultural and political theory: Riot.Strike.Riot (2016), 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (2009), and The Matrix (2005).

Clover has received an individual NEA grant as well as the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, and served as a senior fellow at the Paris Diderot University and the Institute for Advanced Study at Warwick University. He is a professor of English and comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, and a columnist for The Nation and Ny Tid, in Norway. Clover is a founding editor of Commune Editions.