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