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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Category: Vlogbrothers
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vlogbrothers | Which is Correct? — or – ? In modern Wit all printed trash, isSet off with num’rous Breaks—and Dashes–
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See also: Marianne Moore – John Green Reads Poetry vlogbrothers | Who Owns Nerdfighteria? imaginary gardens with real toads in them,
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vlogbrothers | together. the best way out is always through.
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A.k.a. “I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” – which John read in full at the Ours Poetica live kick-off event. Vlogbrothers | I, Too, Dislike It And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down – And hit a World, at every plunge,
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Published in Space Struck (Sarabande Books, 2019) Vlogbrothers | I, Too, Dislike It I feel as if I’m on the moon listening to the air hissout of my spacesuit, and I can’t find the hole. I’m the vice president of panic, and the president ismissing.
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Didn’t I hear John read this poem elsewhere? Vlogbrothers | I, Too, Dislike It I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. one discovers in it after all, a place for the genuine.
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vlogbrothers | WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY
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vlogbrothers | WHERE IS MY NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY Spring is like a perhaps hand(which comes carefullyout of Nowhere)
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In Counting Descent by Clint Smith (Write Bloody Publishing, 2016) vlogbrothers | Very Hard to Desclibe You will wonder what kind of precedent we are setting here
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The poem (first quote) is also quoted by John on Dear Hank & John episode 37 Vlogbrothers | “Kindness”
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Vlogbrothers | YouTube Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.
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vlogbrothers | Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art For poetry makes nothing happen: A way of happening, a mouth.
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vlogbrothers | A Poem for Spring hope of man as wellFlowers among the morning dews.
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A.k.a. Thomas H. Johnson edition (1955): Poem #812; R. W. Franklin edition (1998): Poem #891 vlogbrothers | A Poem for Spring A Light exists in SpringNot present on the YearAt any other period —
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vlogbrothers | A Poem for Spring
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From Love’s Labors Lost vlogbrothers | A Poem for Spring When daisies pied and violets blueAnd lady-smocks all silver-white
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vlogbrothers | A Poem for Spring O THOU with dewy locks, who lookest downThrough the clear windows of the morning,
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vlogbrothers | A Poem for Spring a woman:‘O yes, I’m here again and your heartknows I was coming.’
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vlogbrothers | I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One.
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vlogbrothers | Solving Your Problems! If there was a problem, yo, I’ll solve it
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vlogbrothers | November 5th: John’s Not Happy about Pakistan Has any one supposed it lucky to be born?I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.
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vlogbrothers | September 14th: Paper Towns, Part 2 I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, Read the full poem here: Howl | The Poetry Foundation
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vlogbrothers | September 10th: Airports and Whitman Have you practis’d so long to learn to read?Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems? Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns…
John Green Reads Poetry 