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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This is also a recurring riff in many of the opening segments of Dear Hank & John
A lovely play on the Latin phrase Ars Poetica (“The Art of Poetry”)
Examples: 1 | 2
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.
And are still missed by Nerdfighters everywhere!

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“You Fit Into Me” by Margaret Atwood

August 31, 2015

The brothers’ related (in-person!) banter…

John: Hank, would you like a short poem for today?

Hank: I, it doesn’t matter.

John: ‘Cause you’re gonna get one. This is a very short poem, to make up for the longest short poem I read a couple weeks ago. This is called You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood. Are you familiar with this poem?

Hank: No.

John: Oh it’s a good one, are you ready?

(Reads poem)

Hank: That was a short poem.

John: Very short.

Hank: I like Margaret Atwood. That’s my kinda poem.

John: Yeah well, Margaret Atwood’s your kinda, your kinda writer for sure. She’s great and I, I’ve always liked that poem because there’s so much “You complete me” and “You fit into me” and “We complement each other” poetry out there that she sets your expectations up pretty carefully and you’re just picturing this, you know, this needle and this thread and then, and then you’re not.

Hank: Yep.

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