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