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.
Quite wonderful.
February 15, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Quite wonderful.
Reposted by Barrett Watten
Björk - Human Behaviour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHX...
Björk Performs "Human Behaviour" Live on November 10, 1993 | Late Night with Conan O’Brien
YouTube video by Conan O'Brien
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February 15, 2026 at 1:29 PM
Björk - Human Behaviour
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHX...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPHX...
"Avant-Garde Poetics of the Zone" uploaded and sent to EAM.
February 1, 2026 at 10:49 PM
"Avant-Garde Poetics of the Zone" uploaded and sent to EAM.
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
Document 109: Poetics of the Zone « barrettwatten.net
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January 24, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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
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
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...
2026 MLA Annual Convention
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January 7, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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...
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.
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).
Change the narrative so that it outlasts the news cycle.
November 7, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Change the narrative so that it outlasts the news cycle.
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.
ACCEPTED! MLA TORONTO, JANUARY 8–11, 2026
“Twentieth-First-Century Jackson Mac Low”
Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
This special session tracks the work of poet, composer, playwright, and performer Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004).
With Clarinda Mac Low, Tyrus Miller, Michael O'Driscoll, BW.
“Twentieth-First-Century Jackson Mac Low”
Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
This special session tracks the work of poet, composer, playwright, and performer Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004).
With Clarinda Mac Low, Tyrus Miller, Michael O'Driscoll, BW.
October 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
ACCEPTED! MLA TORONTO, JANUARY 8–11, 2026
“Twentieth-First-Century Jackson Mac Low”
Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
This special session tracks the work of poet, composer, playwright, and performer Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004).
With Clarinda Mac Low, Tyrus Miller, Michael O'Driscoll, BW.
“Twentieth-First-Century Jackson Mac Low”
Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
This special session tracks the work of poet, composer, playwright, and performer Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004).
With Clarinda Mac Low, Tyrus Miller, Michael O'Driscoll, BW.
You do need to see that video. I won't post it here, but I could have. It's easy to find.
October 19, 2025 at 9:57 PM
You do need to see that video. I won't post it here, but I could have. It's easy to find.
Reposted by Barrett Watten
It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.
October 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
It's not just that the NYT chose to ignore the massive protests -- 300,000 in their city alone! -- but that the piece they *did* run on the front page about Democrats is almost cartoonishly bad in how much it whines that they're just not doing what A.G. Sulzberger LXVII wants them to do.
Yes, I was there. No Kings march in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Crowd size 5K-8K and very good-spirited, if a bit polite. My "Siempre Antifascista" t-shirt, made In China, was the only such I saw.
October 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Yes, I was there. No Kings march in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Crowd size 5K-8K and very good-spirited, if a bit polite. My "Siempre Antifascista" t-shirt, made In China, was the only such I saw.
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