An alumnus of Boston University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Joshua Clover’s recent publications include The Totality for Kids (UC Press, 2006) and Red Epic (Commune Editions, 2015). His poems have also appeared three times in Best American Poetry, and he has written two books of film and cultural criticism: The Matrix (2005) and 1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About (2009). Clover currently is an associate professor of English literature and critical theory at the University of California, Davis.

Sean Bonney’s books include Happiness: Poems After Rimbaud (Unkant, 2011), The Commons (Openned, 2011), Document: Poems, Diagrams, Manifestos (Barque, 2009), and Baudelaire in English (Veer 2008). His selected poems, Letters Against the Firmament, will be published later this year, as well as a book of his selected essays. Bonney is a 2015-17 Postdoctoral Fellow at the JFK Institute, Freie Universität Berlin.

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