The reading room gathers poems, novels, articles + artworks that have inspired the poets + artists of theVERSEverse at important stages of their creative journeys.
These cultural artifacts are catalysts—generators of creative output. We hope they inspire you, too.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Piecemeal Bard Is Deconst ructed: Notes Toward a Potential Robopoetics
The Tyger
Cent mille milliards de poèmes (One hundred million million poems)
Demeter to Persephone
Porsche 911 type 993 air cooled engine repair manual
A Sport and a Pastime
Untitled
Walking & Falling
Language and symbolic power
Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up
Ben Vautier
Tamburitza Lingua
Sainte Victoire aux traits épais
Infinite Skulls #05 DUO 2019
My God, It’s Full of Stars
Show of Hands: Moholy-Nagy Lights the Way
Santa Claus IX
SWOON
The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed
Livre d’heures d’Isabelle Stuart
Twin Towers
(everything, but most notably: Double Jeux, Vraies Histoires, Prenez soin de vous)
Beloved
Ursonate
New Worlds in Old Stones
Can’t and Won’t
Elegia Machina
Love
Said the Shotgun to the Head
Krik? Krak!
Paysage de montagne
The Waste Land
Xu Bing
Calligrammes : Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre
Declaration of Intent
The Machine of Poetry
Le Mont Analogue
Marina Abramovic’s Gaze
Chemins Cherches, chemins perdus, transgressions
Bjork’s Homogenic & videos
One and Three Chairs
The Glass Essay
Just Kids & all her music
The Ecstasy of Influence
Disgrace
The Wild Iris
Certificate of Inauthenticity
The House of Dust
Edgar Heap of Birds
Threshold
Date Paintings
Midi La Lune
London
An Interview with Franny Choi
Home is Where the Haunt Is—The Shining’s Hauntology
Pendulum Music
Horses
Robinson Crusoe
Citizen
The History of the Typewriter Recited by Michael Winslow
On #GLITCHFEMINISM and The Glitch Feminism Manifesto