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