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