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