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