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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Write up and comments on our Zone reading last Sunday in New York. I will post the Instagram link when available: bit.ly/3VCkQLg

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Leningrad-89 is now out in Russia; I am hoping copies will be available through Interbok in Stockholm; stay tuned.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Call for papers: "Asymmetrical Mimesis," due September 22. For more information, click below: bit.ly/46ggVpG

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There is a man cut in half by a window.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Cover of the just-coming-into-print translation of *Leningrad-89*, from Nosorog (Rhinoceros) in Moscow:

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

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

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

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

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

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...

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

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

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Entry 72: Zones (Paris and Berlin) documents the two performances using sampling techniques: bit.ly/42BWsKb

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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...

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Event page for reading at Double Change, Paris: Suzanne Doppelt, Carla Harryman, Cole Swenson, Barrett Watten www.facebook.com/events/23853...

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

A piece in memory of my mother, born precisely one hundred years ago on this day. bit.ly/4tZ4WGR

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

BW and CH returning to California. Photo: Stephen Ratcliffe.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Entry 70, "Performing the Zone," on making the text for the reading at Gray Loft Gallery: bit.ly/4dsEZKz

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

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

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

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

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

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...

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

My poem "Media Literacy" and photos from No Kings, April 2025, up at Chant de la Sirene Journal. www.chantdelasirenejournal.com/barrett-watt...

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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....

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Zone: correlations (1973 2021) event page: 20% off from Chax Press through December. www.facebook.com/events/16639...

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Simone Fattal recommends Zone.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Pubication announcement / Paris reading 11/25.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Here is the sale price line for ordering Zone: correlations from Chax: bit.ly/3LUJVMI

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Publication day for Zone: correlations; first appearance in a bookstore (Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor).

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Arrived and very beautiful! Very literary as well. Can't wait to spend time with it.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

My morning's work was to update what I've been doing in "Language Writing and Beyond," uploading some narrative framing that verges on polemic to introduce the take-home exam I gave to students last week. Enjoy, and why not, what responses might you have? bit.ly/3WLwH74

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Page 12.5. Academic Contexts II. bit.ly/46maTEI

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Page 12.4: Academic Contexts II. Continuing my effort to answer the "blog"; the difficulty continues. bit.ly/3JI1zSQ

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Page 12.3: Academic Contexts I. Off my desk and into virtual space: my effort to take down the anonymous blog, answering the seven faculty who posted on it. This is difficult material, as are and were the times. bit.ly/4pmVgEL

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I am uploading my syllabus, minus boilerplate plus some notes about my course and teaching in general. Fourteen weeks is not enough, obviously! I am looking ahead and back but also to the ongoing middle of Language writing and its offshoots, controversies, and reception after 2000. bit.ly/4n2TpCJ

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Document 108: Global Poetics CFP. Proposal for a multi-session seminar at ACLA, Montréal, February 26–March 1, 2026 with link to portal; deadline October 2. Organized by Barrett Watten and Lauri Scheyer. Circulate widely! bit.ly/4mzKg4K

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Due to popular demand: a page of "Language Notes" on my fall teaching, and links to pdfs of the eight parts of Eleana Kim's excellent history of Language writing up to 1994. Thanks to Nada Tzirre Gordon for keeping it alive up to this very moment. bit.ly/4oEm56N

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Seminar is up: "Radical Particularity and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission"; click here: bit.ly/47p0okX

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The second installment of my replies to literary persons on the "blog," starting with the best-known figure. An act of radical self-reflection as one may also imagine. In one case, I ask for readers' help in identifying the author of a post. bit.ly/4lDlhNy

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

A memorial page for Cole Heinowitz, written within the three-week window of memory: bit.ly/4lxgzAC

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I'm pleased to announce the forthcoming defense of Scott DeGregoris's dissertation, "Property Value(s): Race, Class, and Political Economy in Narratives of the Single-Family and Lot," scheduled for Friday, July 11, at Wayne State and online. The public is welcome to attend. Scan for Zoom link.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This detailed account of my interactions with Joshua Clover at the 2013 MLA is the beginning of my attempt to "take down the blog," and leave in its place whatever can be salvaged from it. bit.ly/43z9ERg

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Hands Off America!: a page inspired by Robert Creeley's 1970 broadside, read with the weekend's events. bit.ly/4247NDn

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

A page documenting my reading at the Voznesensky Center in Moscow, with a short history of poetic exchanges involving the Soviet poet, and notice of current activities at the Center (including Carla Harryman's book launch March 26). bit.ly/41A6drl

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

My page on experimental poets in Russian and Ukrainian, from positions of opposition, emigration, and displacement, with descriptions for each, along with excerpts from Ekaterina Derisheva's poetics statement and my introduction. See below for link to draft version 2.0 of my paper. bit.ly/41Hio5R

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

More contraband arriving from RU: Carla Harryman's Various Devices, at your global online supplier soon.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Shipment arrives of 40 Not This from Moscow, via Interbok Sweden.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Two publications in one day: linked is the open access edition of *Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture: Invisible Republics*, from a conference in Portugal where I gave a paper on Eugene Jolas in 2016. For your approval! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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