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