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