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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 · 12/09/2026

Zone Readings: next Sunday, September 20, at Torn Page in New York, Steve Benson and Marjorie Welish will join this author for a demonstration of ZONE as book launch, performance, narration. Reservations at Event Brite: www.eventbrite.com/e/zone-readi...

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ZONE READINGS: Barrett Watten, Marjorie Welish, Steve Benson

New York City Book Launch for Barrett Watten's ZONE: correlations 1973 2021 with readings and performances at Torn Page.

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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 · 12/08/2026

Barrett Watten is recognized for building the editorial and communal infrastructure of Language poetry—work that established experimental writing as a rigorous mode of cultural and historical inquiry through the materiality of language itself. —Notable Persons notablepeopleproject.org/barrett_watten

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Barrett Watten - Notable People

Barrett Watten is an American poet, editor, and educator associated with Language poetry, and he is widely known for linking experimental writing to rigorous poetics and cultural criticism. He teaches...

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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 · 06/07/2026

For fans of performance, new music, poetry, and interdisciplinary art: the release of Carla Harryman's "Occupying Theodor W. Adorno's 'Music and New Music,'" originally performed at dOCUMENTA 13 in 2012 and newly recorded with Jon Raskin and Gino Robair. carlaharryman.bandcamp.com/album/occupy...

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Occupying Theodor W.Adorno's "Music and New Music", by Carla Harryman

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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

(For more information, see link here: bit.ly/4em4sW7.)

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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 · 24/05/2026

With the Creeley centennial (May 21), I came across this post from about a year ago, where I tied his poem "America" from a broadside published in 1969 with the recent No Kings demonstrations. So a populist Creeley emerges, suffused with self-focused irony—just what we need now! bit.ly/4247NDn

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Entry 65: Hands Off America! « barrettwatten.net

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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 · 17/05/2026

I presented a Zone reading of 15 sections randomly sequenced over the entire volume, after which Carla read from Against Interpretation of the Heartland, her work in progress. I will post more on the reading itself and our doings in Europe, along with a link for the lecture on Lyn Hejinian.

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

What followed was an improvised discussion of our transatlantic "distressed present" in which Carla and I took part, framing the reading. Magister-poet Ulf Stolterfoht then read from his German translation of the Zukofskys' Catullus, a palimpsestic text deserving close attention. . . .

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

For tactical reasons—there was a misprint in the online program, and the audience was still showing up—host Siddhartha Lokanandi gave an improvised lecture on the concept of Staatsräson and its current uses to control and/or deny cultural initiatives in Germany. . . .

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

Back from an intense twelve days on the road, culminating in Hopscotch Reading Room's pop-up event at Laden2, a glass-enclosed space in a down-at-heels 70s commercial development in Wedding now refunctioned for cultural events. . . .

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

In Munich, where we shortly see our former student Franziska Ruprecht - poetry that glitters at the English Gardens for lunch, under mixed skies and cool temperatures. Followed by what art the day affords at the Pinakothek, and a deep dive into Munich's special history at the Dokuzentrum.

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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 · 05/05/2026

Lectured for an hour and twenty minutes at ENS, the full monty. Images from the archive of Lyn's notebooks for Positions of the Sun were the centerpiece, framed by readings of Benjamin's "Author as Producer" and Breton's Nadja. The coda was "Avant-garde Antifascism," bringing it up to the present.

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

Conceptual lyrics by Cole Swenson and projectivist lyric abstraction by Suzanne Doppelt made up the bill. Connecting with audience members who go way back as far as that or new. Outside gray skies and occasional rain—but of course, it's Paris. This morning, my lecture at ENS.

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

Impressive poetics crowd energy and venue at Double Change last night. I read a dérive of Zone in 13 sections, with translations of three of them by Abigail Lang, who co-performed as much as read. Carla read from Scales for the Living Under Duress, with Abigail's co-performance as well.

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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 · 30/04/2026

Facebook announcement of event: www.facebook.com/events/42755...

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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 · 01/02/2026

"Avant-Garde Poetics of the Zone" uploaded and sent to EAM.

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Barrett Watten @thisdirect.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

As it keeps getting worse over here, I continue to work on organizing a session on transpositions of the avant-garde, definitively out of the country, in Stockholm September 2-4. See: bit.ly/45dSPvK

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Document 109: Poetics of the Zone « barrettwatten.net

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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 · 07/01/2026

It appears that none of the MLA "Just in Time" sessions appear in the print catalogue. Thus, if you are going to MLA or checking out what is being presented, use the online listings. Here is the link for Sunday January; we are on at 8:30: mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

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2026 MLA Annual Convention

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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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