Joshua Clover

Joshua Clover’s first book of poems, Madonna anno domini (Louisiana State University Press), was chosen by Jorie Graham to receive the 1996 Walt Whitman Award. His work has appeared in many literary magazines, including Agni, American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, Threepenny Review, and ZYZZYVA, and has been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize. His poem “El Periferico, or Sleep” won a Pushcart Prize, and “The map room” was selected by James Tate to appear in Best American Poetry 1997. From 1992 to 1993, he was a Resident Fellow in Poetry at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and in 1994 he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has taught English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa, Grinnell College, Colorado State University, and the University of Indiana. He lives in Berkeley, California.