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