In Memoriam: Joshua Clover
Thursday, July 3
Doors: 7:30pm
Event: 8pm
at 2220 Arts+Archives
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Please join the Public School Los Angeles and the Poetic Research Bureau as we celebrate the life and work of poet, scholar, and activist Joshua Clover.
Over the past three decades, the prodigious work of Joshua Clover has been central to many strains of contemporary life. Clover published three volumes of poetry: Madonna anno domini (Louisiana State University Press, 1997), The Totality for Kids (University of California Press, 2006), and Red Epic (Commune Editions, 2015), and with Juliana Spahr and Jasper Bernes founded and edited the poetry press Commune Editions. He was a music critic for The Village Voice and Spin Magazine, and published a volume on Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, Roadrunner (Duke University Press, 2021). His political scholarship surveyed everyday life, social struggle, film, and pop music, in books such as 1989: Bob Dylan Didn't Have This to Sing About (University of California Press, 2009) and Riot. Strike. Riot: The New Era of Uprisings (Verso, 2016).