John Green Reads Poetry

So many poems to listen to!

Hey, there’s a missing poem!

Hi! This website is an ongoing labor of love inspired by John’s self-proclaimed love of poetry ¹ and the mission of Ours Poetica.²

We’re working very hard combing through the vast amounts of online content John and Hank have created ³ — and continue to create! — to find every instance of John reading poetry.⁴ Most of these were short poems that used to appear as an opening segment in the Dear Hank & John pod.⁵

Check out our growing list of missing or lost poetry-related John Green media:

Lost Media (help us out)!

We have a long way to go, and are using the posts’ dates as a way to organize everything chronologically with relevant tags to make everything extra useable!

So if you have a suggestion of something we missed or would like to share a piece of poetry-related media you’ve found…

Let us know!

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  1. This is also a recurring riff in many of the opening segments of Dear Hank & John
  2. A lovely play on the Latin phrase Ars Poetica (“The Art of Poetry”)
  3. Examples: 1 | 2
  4. And, occasionally, someone else, such as his wife, his brother, or a poem inspired by one of Hank’s rants. Admittedly, some things are qualified as ‘poems’ rather loosely — John has read lyrics, and other nontraditional items as poetry, and that’s a wonderful thing!
    Because poetry is, always, what we make it.
  5. And are still missed by Nerdfighters everywhere!
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Samaritan Woman in John 4:11

John’s related banter…

In fact, there’s a line from the uh there’s a line from the translation of the Bible.
I have to I’m giving a sermon. I don’t know how I got talked into this at my church on Sunday. And uh it’s the Samaritan woman at the well uh bit. And there’s a great line of iambic pentameter in this particular English translation.
Um, uh, you have no bucket. You have no bucket and the well is deep. You have no bucket and the well is deep. All right, maybe I should stop talking about poetry

hankgames | Poetry: AFC Wimbly Womblys #56

Plain reading
In iambic pentameter
Click to read the iambic pentameter phrase

You have no bucket and the well is deep.

(NRSV)

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