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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“Reflections on Ice-Breaking” by Ogden Nash

October 6, 2015

Context…

J: I can tell that you prefer the funny poems.

H: (Laughs) I was a little bit unable to keep the train of thought on that one. My dog was being cute.

J: Can I tell you a poem that I think is quite funny, that’s two lines long by Ogden Nash?

H: Okay, sure.

J: I think it’s actually four lines long.

(Reads poem)

H: That is, those are some short lines if that’s a four-line poem.

J: Yeah, I thought you would like that one, ’cause it’s funny, but maybe you’re just paying attention to your dog instead of listening to me.

H: I did, I… No, I did, I did. I liked it, I’ve heard it before. In fact, I didn’t ever consider it so much a poem (John laughs) as something people say.

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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 018