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