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