Joshua Clover: Lauded by sources from Judith Butler to Entertainment Weekly, Joshua Clover's poetry had received multiple honors including the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets and a Village Voice book of the year. His poems appear in many anthologies, including three times in the Best American Poetry, twice in Pushcart Prize collections, and one poem in the prestigious Norton Introduction to Literature. He has also translated French poetry extensively; his own poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Flemish, Swedish, and Danish. Born in Oakland and still a Bay Area resident, he has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, and GQ; he has been a columnist for SPIN, The Village Voice, and The Nation, where he currently writes "Pop and Circumstance." He is a Professor of Literature at the University of California Davis.