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