Barrett Watten
@thisdirect.bsky.social
Poet critic editor and publisher; professor at Wayne State University Detroit; Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences (U Iowa P, 2016); Не то: Избранные тексты/Not This: Selected Writings (Polyphem, 2024); www.barrettwatten.net.
Write up and comments on our Zone reading last Sunday in New York. I will post the Instagram link when available: bit.ly/3VCkQLg
September 27, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Write up and comments on our Zone reading last Sunday in New York. I will post the Instagram link when available: bit.ly/3VCkQLg
Leningrad-89 is now out in Russia; I am hoping copies will be available through Interbok in Stockholm; stay tuned.
September 11, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Leningrad-89 is now out in Russia; I am hoping copies will be available through Interbok in Stockholm; stay tuned.
Call for papers: "Asymmetrical Mimesis," due September 22. For more information, click below: bit.ly/46ggVpG
September 10, 2026 at 2:29 PM
Call for papers: "Asymmetrical Mimesis," due September 22. For more information, click below: bit.ly/46ggVpG
There is a man cut in half by a window.
August 17, 2026 at 2:23 AM
There is a man cut in half by a window.
Cover of the just-coming-into-print translation of *Leningrad-89*, from Nosorog (Rhinoceros) in Moscow:
July 14, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Cover of the just-coming-into-print translation of *Leningrad-89*, from Nosorog (Rhinoceros) in Moscow:
Entry 75: "AI Reads Leningrad." On how AI could accurately (more or less) summarize my nonnarrative introduction to the forthcoming Russian translation of Leningrad, and should we be concerned? bit.ly/43OuYlc
June 21, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Entry 75: "AI Reads Leningrad." On how AI could accurately (more or less) summarize my nonnarrative introduction to the forthcoming Russian translation of Leningrad, and should we be concerned? bit.ly/43OuYlc
I promised a write-up of the Language/Beats event, so here it is—with some embellishment as time and space permit, but only the beginning of a longer conversation. bit.ly/4fKvJms
June 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
I promised a write-up of the Language/Beats event, so here it is—with some embellishment as time and space permit, but only the beginning of a longer conversation. bit.ly/4fKvJms
Channeling the deep 60s: "Language/Beats," a book celebration for my *Zone* and Erik Mortenson's *Allen Ginsberg in Context* (Cambridge UP): talk, reading, and discussion with audience Q&A, Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor, Thursday, June 11, 7 PM. www.facebook.com/events/13020...
June 3, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Channeling the deep 60s: "Language/Beats," a book celebration for my *Zone* and Erik Mortenson's *Allen Ginsberg in Context* (Cambridge UP): talk, reading, and discussion with audience Q&A, Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor, Thursday, June 11, 7 PM. www.facebook.com/events/13020...
In "Entry 73: Language Notes IV," I comment on the recently published volume on Language writing from Indian academia, following the lead of Vlad Feshchenko and Panos Bosnakis: bit.ly/3Q7jfe9
May 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
In "Entry 73: Language Notes IV," I comment on the recently published volume on Language writing from Indian academia, following the lead of Vlad Feshchenko and Panos Bosnakis: bit.ly/3Q7jfe9
Entry 72: Zones (Paris and Berlin) documents the two performances using sampling techniques: bit.ly/42BWsKb
May 17, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Entry 72: Zones (Paris and Berlin) documents the two performances using sampling techniques: bit.ly/42BWsKb
Zones/Berlin: A reading with Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Ulf Stolterfoht. Thursday, May 14, Laden2, 65 Brunnenstraße. Berlin, 7 PM. All are welcome. www.facebook.com/events/80148...
May 8, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Zones/Berlin: A reading with Barrett Watten, Carla Harryman, Ulf Stolterfoht. Thursday, May 14, Laden2, 65 Brunnenstraße. Berlin, 7 PM. All are welcome. www.facebook.com/events/80148...
Event page for reading at Double Change, Paris: Suzanne Doppelt, Carla Harryman, Cole Swenson, Barrett Watten www.facebook.com/events/23853...
May 1, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Event page for reading at Double Change, Paris: Suzanne Doppelt, Carla Harryman, Cole Swenson, Barrett Watten www.facebook.com/events/23853...
Flyer announcing my lecture in Paris on May 5 at ENS: "A Poetics of Refunctioning: From Walter Benjamin to Lyn Hejinian." For more information, click here: bit.ly/4mRMqxD.
April 28, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Flyer announcing my lecture in Paris on May 5 at ENS: "A Poetics of Refunctioning: From Walter Benjamin to Lyn Hejinian." For more information, click here: bit.ly/4mRMqxD.
A piece in memory of my mother, born precisely one hundred years ago on this day. bit.ly/4tZ4WGR
April 19, 2026 at 9:23 PM
A piece in memory of my mother, born precisely one hundred years ago on this day. bit.ly/4tZ4WGR
BW and CH returning to California. Photo: Stephen Ratcliffe.
March 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM
BW and CH returning to California. Photo: Stephen Ratcliffe.
Entry 70, "Performing the Zone," on making the text for the reading at Gray Loft Gallery: bit.ly/4dsEZKz
March 18, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Entry 70, "Performing the Zone," on making the text for the reading at Gray Loft Gallery: bit.ly/4dsEZKz
Clarification for our event in Oakland, March 15: Gray Loft Gallery is collaborating with The Orchard Galleries on 25 ; thus the 25th Street address is correct!
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Publicity: bit.ly/4b4z9MR
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Publicity: bit.ly/4b4z9MR
March 5, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Clarification for our event in Oakland, March 15: Gray Loft Gallery is collaborating with The Orchard Galleries on 25 ; thus the 25th Street address is correct!
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Publicity: bit.ly/4b4z9MR
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Publicity: bit.ly/4b4z9MR
Announcing: Texts/Worlds: Readings by Stephen Ratcliffe and Barrett Watten, with “Demos: Gertrude Stein’s Do Let Us Go Away,” a performance by Carla Harryman and Jon Raskin
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
March 4, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Announcing: Texts/Worlds: Readings by Stephen Ratcliffe and Barrett Watten, with “Demos: Gertrude Stein’s Do Let Us Go Away,” a performance by Carla Harryman and Jon Raskin
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Gray Loft Gallery @ The Orchard / Galleries on 25
489 25th Street, Oakland, CA
Sunday, March 15, 4:00–6:00 PM
Call for papers for EAM Stockholm: "Avant-Garde Poetics of the Zone." Hoping for a wide array of topics to make the sessions a kind of "interzone" in their own right. Deadline: January 30. bit.ly/45dSPvK
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Call for papers for EAM Stockholm: "Avant-Garde Poetics of the Zone." Hoping for a wide array of topics to make the sessions a kind of "interzone" in their own right. Deadline: January 30. bit.ly/45dSPvK
MLA program is out with our Just-in-Time session "Twentieth-First-Century Jackson Mac Low" NOT LISTED! Here is a link and a screen capture of the online program; please pass the word. Time and place are Sunday, January 11, 8:30–9:45 AM, MTCC 714A, Toronto. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
January 6, 2026 at 11:32 PM
MLA program is out with our Just-in-Time session "Twentieth-First-Century Jackson Mac Low" NOT LISTED! Here is a link and a screen capture of the online program; please pass the word. Time and place are Sunday, January 11, 8:30–9:45 AM, MTCC 714A, Toronto. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
My poem "Media Literacy" and photos from No Kings, April 2025, up at Chant de la Sirene Journal. www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/barrett-watt...
December 22, 2025 at 1:33 AM
My poem "Media Literacy" and photos from No Kings, April 2025, up at Chant de la Sirene Journal. www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/barrett-watt...
Steve Benson reading for Anti-Tyranny. Check out the Chant de la Sirene Journal itssue itself in the link: www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/issue-5-onty....
December 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Steve Benson reading for Anti-Tyranny. Check out the Chant de la Sirene Journal itssue itself in the link: www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/issue-5-onty....
Zone: correlations (1973 2021) event page: 20% off from Chax Press through December. www.facebook.com/events/16639...
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Zone: correlations (1973 2021) event page: 20% off from Chax Press through December. www.facebook.com/events/16639...
Balzac in Paris.
November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Balzac in Paris.
Simone Fattal recommends Zone.
November 26, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Simone Fattal recommends Zone.