Pick two poets who seem to have nothing to do with each other — a Gothic American and a pastoral Englishman, say — and see where the catalogue actually joins them: overlapping years, shared ground, distinctive themes, and the poems that secretly rhyme.
Genevieve Taggard
Georgia Douglas Johnson
A random pair who overlapped in time and whose poems already rhyme in the catalogue — a way into poets you may not have met.
Genevieve Taggard was born on November 28, 1894, in the small farming community of Waitsburg, Washington, a place of dust-choked fields and modest wooden houses that would later stand in stark contrast to the lush paradise of her childhood memories. She died on November 8, 1948, in a New York City hospital, just shy of her fifty-fourth birthday, her body worn down by chronic hypertension that had increasingly confine…
“It is better to work hard than to be married hard.”
Georgia Douglas Johnson was a luminous voice in American literature, a poet whose words captured the fluttering heart of womanhood, the weight of racial identity, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit during one of the most vibrant eras of Black artistic expression. Born on September 10, 1880, in Atlanta, Georgia, and passing away on May 15, 1966, in Washington, D.C., she lived through sweeping changes—from th…
“I'm half way between everybody and everything and I bring them together.”
About 3,163 km separate Waitsburg, Washington, USA from Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Both have ground in Washington.
Distinctive words drawn from each poet’s critiqued poems — what they keep writing about, not just what their biographies mention.
Genevieve Taggard: waitsburg, washington, honolulu, hawaii, robert l. wolf, marcia liles, for eager lovers, hawaiian hilltop, travelling standing still, the life and mind of emily dickinson. Georgia Douglas Johnson: atlanta, georgia, washington, d.c., harlem renaissance, the heart of a woman, an autumn love cycle, share my world, henry lincoln johnson, s street salon.
The closest poem-to-poem matches in critique space — the sort of kinship a listener hears before the catalogue admits it.
Notable events from the years they were both alive.
Genevieve Taggard: Longing, Sorrow, Despair. Georgia Douglas Johnson: Sorrow, Despair, Longing.
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