Clojure is a Lisp dialect that runs on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and provides excellent concurrency support and tight integration with Java. It retains the advantages of Lisp such as being simple, expressive, and flexible while also allowing access to existing Java code and libraries. Clojure makes concurrency easy through features like transactional memory and agents. It can be used to create both Java and Clojure libraries and extends the Java platform.