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Barrett Watten was born on 3 October, 1948 in United States, is an American poet, editor, and educator. Discover Barrett Watten's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 75 years old?
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This work, which consists of ten volumes, is described as an "experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco. The project takes its name from a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976 to 1979 the authors curated a reading and performance series. The project began in 1998; it was constructed via online collaboration, using Web-based software and an email listserv.
Barrett Watten (born October 3, 1948) is an American poet, editor, and educator often associated with the Language poets.
He is a professor of English at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where he has taught modernism and cultural studies.
Other areas of research include postmodern culture and American literature; poetics; literary and cultural theory; visual studies; the avant-garde; and digital literature.
Watten was born in Long Beach, California in 1948.
After graduating from high school in Oakland, California, he studied at MIT and the University of California, Berkeley.
He majored in biochemistry, graduating with an AB in 1969.
He enrolled in the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.
In 1971 he and Grenier began the poetry journal This.
He graduated with a master's in fine arts degree in 1972.
After graduation Watten returned to the San Francisco Bay area.
He continued to publish This on his own and became involved in the early stages of language poetry which was developing there.
In 1976 he and friends founded a reading series at the Grand Piano coffeehouse in San Francisco which ran through 1979.
which he edited with Grenier for the first three years and then alone until 1982.
Watten continued to edit This until 1982.
Then he and Lyn Hejinian founded and edited Poetics Journal from 1982 to 1993.
Watten is married to the poet Carla Harryman; their son, Asa, was born in 1984.
Two of his books – Progress (1985) and Under Erasure (1991) – were republished with a new preface, as Progress | Under Erasure (2004).
He has published three volumes of literary and cultural criticism, Total Syntax (1985);The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics (2003); and Questions of Poetics: Language Writing and Consequences (2016).
In 1986 Watten returned to graduate school at Berkeley and received his PhD in English in 1995.
In 1986, he returned to UC Berkeley, earning his PhD in English in 1996.
He joined the English department at Wayne State University in 1994.
In 1995 he was the subject of a special issue of the poetry magazine Aerial.
Watten earned his PhD at the University of California at Berkeley in 1995.
His dissertation was entitled: Horizon Shift: Progress and Negativity in American Modernism.
His published work includes Bad History (1998) and Frame (1971–1990) which appeared in 1997.
Frame brings together six previously published works of poetry from two decades: Opera—Works ; Decay ; 1–10 ; Plasma/Paralleles/"X" ; Complete Thought and Conduit – along with two previously uncollected texts – City Fields and Frame.
The American Comparative Literature Association awarded him the 2004 René Wellek Prize for his book The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural Poetics.
As outlined in a report in The Chronicle of Higher Education, over the years Watten's behavior, allegedly short-tempered and hostile, had made many students and faculty uncomfortable.
From 2006 to 2010 the group published The Grand Piano, a "collective autobiography" of that period.
Watten is also co-author, with Tom Mandel, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, Kit Robinson, Carla Harryman, Rae Armantrout, Ted Pearson, Steve Benson, and Bob Perelman of The Grand Piano: An Experiment in Collective Autobiography. (Detroit, MI: Mode A/This Press, 2006–2010).
In 2007, Martin Richet translated into French Plasma / Parallèles / «X», a volume that joins three long poems which originally appeared in a chapbook by Tuumba Press in 1979.
In the spring semester of 2019 several graduate students filed new complaints.
Unhappy with the response, they set up a blog to collect accounts of his behavior toward students and faculty.
In May the Wayne State administration hired an independent investigator.
In November the university informed Watten that he was banned from teaching and his office would be moved to another building.
Watten's faculty union, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), filed a grievance citing lack of required due process and requesting that the restrictions be withdrawn.
Watten edited This, one of the central little magazines of the Language movement, and co-edited Poetics Journal, one of its theoretical venues.