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