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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A.k.a. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) her breasts are dun;
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A.k.a. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) eyes can see,
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A.k.a. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) love is not love
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) rosy lips and cheeks
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) love is not love
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A.k.a. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare.
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) Love’s not time’s fool,
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A.k.a. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
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A.k.a. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) Let me not to the marriage of true minds
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See also: John Keats – John Green Reads Poetry crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304)
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A.k.a. “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
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A.k.a. “Two loves I have of comfort and despair” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) The better angel is a man right fair,The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
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A.k.a. “Not marble nor the gilded monuments” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) Not marble nor the gilded monumentsOf princes shall outlive this powerful rhyme,But you shall shine more bright in these contentsThan unswept stone besmeared with sluttish time.
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A.k.a. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
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A.k.a. “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” crashcourse | Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Crash Course Literature 304) the edge of doom
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Originally written in Polish (Polski), “Spróbuj opiewać okaleczony świat” was translated into English by Clare Cavanagh. Dear Hank & John | Ep. 055
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John quotes part I out of a total five Dear Hank & John | Ep. 054
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 053
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 052
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 051
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Also titled “Let No Charitable Hope” Dear Hank & John | Ep. 050
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A.k.a. “I loved my friend”. It is superscripted: (To F. S.) Guest Hank: Sydney Green (the brothers’ mom) Dear Hank & John | Ep. 049
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Note: John later incorporated this almost verbatim* into his fifth solo novel, Turtles All The Way Down (Dutton Books, 2017) as words from the protagonist, Aza Holmes’, perspective Dear Hank & John | Ep. 048
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A.k.a. Poem 1286 or 1263 because of differences in how her poems have been cataloged by editors over time.* Dear Hank & John | Ep. 047
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 046
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A.k.a. Poem 314 Dear Hank & John | Ep. 045
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 044 John repeats the key refrain:
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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. 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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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 041
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 040
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From More Pansies (1932). Dear Hank & John | Ep. 039
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Syria’s National Poet نزار توفيق قباني (French: Nizar Kabbani) lived 21 March 1923 – 30 April 1998. In Arabic the poem is titled “الضوء أهم من المصباح”. Dear Hank & John | Ep. 038
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This appears as a verse at the beginning of Chapter 14 of her book, and is part of the fictional Earthseed scripture created by the protagonist, Lauren Olamina, and aligns with the central Earthseed tenet: “God is Change.” This was also quoted by John on the vlogbrothers episode “Kindness” Dear Hank & John | Ep. 037
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Harper Lee (28 April 1926 – 19 February 2016) originally published her classic novel on 11 July 1960 (J. B. Lippincott & Co.) Dear Hank & John | Ep. 036 And just for good measure…
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From her book, Dog Songs (NY: Penguin, 2013) Dear Hank & John | Ep. 036
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See also: “If We Must Die” (excerpts) by Claude McKay – John Green Reads Poetry Dear Hank & John | Ep. 035
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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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A.k.a. “Stop All The Clocks” Dear Hank & John | Ep. 034
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Also called “Epitaph on my own Friend” Dear Hank & John | Ep. 033 An honest man here lies at rest, The friend of man, the friend of truth;The friend of age, and guide of youth:Few hearts like his, with virtue warm’d,Few heads with knowledge so inform’d:If there’s another world, he lives in bliss;If there…
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Produced in collaboration with Ken Scott, this song was originally recorded by Bowie (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016) in the summer of 1971 and released on 17 December of that year as part of his Hunky Dory album (Trident / RCA). Dear Hank & John | Ep. 032
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Dear Hank & John | Ep. 031
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A.k.a. Poem 314 Dear Hank & John | Ep. 030
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