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:
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…
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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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Dear Hank & John
Or as he likes to call it: “Dear John & Hank”
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Month: April 2016
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A.k.a. Poem 314 Dear Hank & John | Ep. 045
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From Book 2, Chapter 10. Tender Is The Night was the author’s fourth and final finished novel, published 12 April 1934 by Charles Scribner’s Sons (New York, NY) Dear Hank & John | Ep. 044
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 044 John repeats the key refrain:
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 043 Had we but world enough and time,* *John says: “There’s world enough and time”
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From the album of the same name, released 22 July 1968 (Capitol). The song was recorded 9 May 1968. Dear Hank & John | Ep. 043 And I turned twenty-one in prison doin’ life without paroleNo one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama triedMama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I…
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From Haiku: This Other World (1998) Dear Hank & John | Ep. 042
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