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

By Claudia Rankine

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

Midi La Lune

By Aurélie Nemours

Suggested by:

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Elegia Machina

By aurèce verrier

Suggested by:

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Sainte Victoire aux traits épais

By Vera Molnar

Suggested by:

aurèce vettier

Xu Bing

By Xu Bing

Suggested by:

Pierre Gervois

Date Paintings

By On Kawara

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Declaration of Intent

By Lawrence Weiner

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

One and Three Chairs

By Joseph Kosuth

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Disgrace

By JM. Coetzee

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

Tamburitza Lingua

By Ani DiFranco

Suggested by:

Vanessa Coleman

Twin Towers

By Ian Monk

Suggested by:

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Certificate of Inauthenticity

By Rhea Myers

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Ursonate

By Kurt Schwitters Performed by Eberhard Blum

Suggested by:

Christian Bök

Robinson Crusoe

By Mary Godolphin

Suggested by:

Christian Bök

The Glass Essay

By Anne Carson

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

The Wild Iris

By Luise Glück

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

Walking & Falling

By Laurie Anderson

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

Love

By Alex Dimitrov

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

Demeter to Persephone

By Alicia Ostriker

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

The Piecemeal Bard Is Deconst ructed: Notes Toward a Potential Robopoetics

By Christian Bök

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Said the Shotgun to the Head

By Saul Williams

Suggested by:

Vanessa Coleman

Livre d’heures d’Isabelle Stuart

By Maître de Giac

Suggested by:

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Why I Want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up

By Nick Bostrom

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Edgar Heap of Birds

By Edgar Heap of Birds

Suggested by:

Pierre Gervois

The Tyger

By William Blake

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

My God, It’s Full of Stars

By Tracy K. Smith

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Pendulum Music

By Steve Riech

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

(everything, but most notably: Double Jeux, Vraies Histoires, Prenez soin de vous)

By Sophie Calle

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

The Waste Land

By T.S. Eliot

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Porsche 911 type 993 air cooled engine repair manual

By Porsche

Suggested by:

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The House of Dust

By Alison Knowles

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed

By Racter

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

On #GLITCHFEMINISM and The Glitch Feminism Manifesto

By Legacy Russell

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Paysage de montagne

By Anna-Eva Bergman

Suggested by:

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Language and symbolic power

By Pierre Bourdieu

Suggested by:

Pierre Gervois

Home is Where the Haunt Is—The Shining’s Hauntology

By k-punk

Suggested by:

Merchant Coppola

Chemins Cherches, chemins perdus, transgressions

By Henri Michaux

Suggested by:

Pierre Gervois

Calligrammes : Poèmes de la paix et de la guerre

By Guillaume Apollinaire

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Bjork’s Homogenic & videos

By Björk

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

An Interview with Franny Choi

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Can’t and Won’t

By Lydia Davis

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Just Kids & all her music

By Patti Smith

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

Krik? Krak!

By Edwidge Danticat

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Untitled

By Hanne Darboven

Suggested by:

Pierre Gervois

Threshold

By Ryan Cook

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

By T.S. Eliot

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

The Machine of Poetry

By Matthew Zapruder

Suggested by:

Sasha Stiles

Santa Claus IX

By Alexander Calder

Suggested by:

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Cent mille milliards de poèmes (One hundred million million poems)

By Raymond Queneau

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Ben Vautier

By Ben Vautier

Suggested by:

Pierre Gervois

The History of the Typewriter Recited by Michael Winslow

By Ignacio Uriarte

Suggested by:

Christian Bök

New Worlds in Old Stones

By Mary Frances

Suggested by:

Christian Bök

Marina Abramovic’s Gaze

By Marina Abramović

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

Show of Hands: Moholy-Nagy Lights the Way

By Lazlo Moholy-Nagy

Suggested by:

Gisel Florez

Horses

By Franz Marc

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

The Ecstasy of Influence

By Jonathan Lethem

Suggested by:

Christian Bök

London

By Keira Rathbone

Suggested by:

Christian Bök

Beloved

By Toni Morrison

Suggested by:

Ana Maria Caballero

SWOON

By Caledonia Curry

Suggested by:

Vanessa Coleman

Le Mont Analogue

By René Dual

Suggested by:

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A Sport and a Pastime

By James Salter

Suggested by:

Kalen Iwamoto

Infinite Skulls #05 DUO 2019

By Robbie Barrat & Ronan Barrot

Suggested by:

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