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