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