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