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.
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.
Pubication announcement / Paris reading 11/25.
November 22, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Pubication announcement / Paris reading 11/25.
Here is the sale price line for ordering Zone: correlations from Chax: bit.ly/3LUJVMI
November 21, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Here is the sale price line for ordering Zone: correlations from Chax: bit.ly/3LUJVMI
Publication day for Zone: correlations; first appearance in a bookstore (Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor).
November 19, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Publication day for Zone: correlations; first appearance in a bookstore (Third Mind Books, Ann Arbor).
Arrived and very beautiful! Very literary as well. Can't wait to spend time with it.
October 26, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Arrived and very beautiful! Very literary as well. Can't wait to spend time with it.
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
October 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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
Page 12.5. Academic Contexts II. bit.ly/46maTEI
September 6, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Page 12.5. Academic Contexts II. bit.ly/46maTEI
Page 12.4: Academic Contexts II. Continuing my effort to answer the "blog"; the difficulty continues. bit.ly/3JI1zSQ
September 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Page 12.4: Academic Contexts II. Continuing my effort to answer the "blog"; the difficulty continues. bit.ly/3JI1zSQ
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
September 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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
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
August 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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
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
August 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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
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
August 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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
Seminar is up: "Radical Particularity and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission"; click here: bit.ly/47p0okX
August 9, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Seminar is up: "Radical Particularity and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission"; click here: bit.ly/47p0okX
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
July 24, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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
A memorial page for Cole Heinowitz, written within the three-week window of memory: bit.ly/4lxgzAC
July 5, 2025 at 7:52 PM
A memorial page for Cole Heinowitz, written within the three-week window of memory: bit.ly/4lxgzAC
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.
July 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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.
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
June 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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
Hands Off America!: a page inspired by Robert Creeley's 1970 broadside, read with the weekend's events. bit.ly/4247NDn
April 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Hands Off America!: a page inspired by Robert Creeley's 1970 broadside, read with the weekend's events. bit.ly/4247NDn
Fall 2025 at Wayne State.
April 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fall 2025 at Wayne State.
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
March 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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
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
March 1, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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
More contraband arriving from RU: Carla Harryman's Various Devices, at your global online supplier soon.
December 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM
More contraband arriving from RU: Carla Harryman's Various Devices, at your global online supplier soon.