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