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