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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Tag: hankgames
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The opening piece in his extended work Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951) hankgames | Poetry: AFC Wimbly Womblys #56 Good morning, daddy!Ain’t you heardThe boogie-woogie rumbleOf a dream deferred?
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See also: “This is Just to Say” by William Carlos Williams – John Green Reads Poetry hankgames | Poetry: AFC Wimbly Womblys #56
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hankgames | Poetry: AFC Wimbly Womblys #56
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Also quoted on the first episode of Dear Hank & John hankgames | Poetry: AFC Wimbly Womblys #56 birthing is hardand dying is mean-so get yourselfa little lovingin between.
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In Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters & Seymour: An Introduction (1955) hankgames | Poetry: AFC Wimbly Womblys #56
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