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!
Related Resources
Dear Hank & John
Or as he likes to call it: “Dear John & Hank”
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Other Resources
Tag: 2019
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Ours Poetica | YouTube
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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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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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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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A.k.a. “I felt a Funeral in my Brain” – referenced in his related vlogbrothers’ video as well. Ours Poetica | YouTube [Note: The audio is captured from a phone recording of the live event, hence its subpar quality, albeit we are nonetheless quite grateful it exists!]
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From John Green’s high school copy of The Norton Anthology of Poetry * Ours Poetica | YouTube,
John Green Reads Poetry 