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