Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with James Weldon Johnson
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
86% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 85% · poems 88%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
86% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 83% · poems 89%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
84% affinity
Shared: life
bio 81% · poems 88%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
83% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 78% · poems 89%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 88%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
80% affinity
bio 77% · poems 85%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
80% affinity
bio 79% · poems 82%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem, life
bio 76% · poems 85%
Daniel Webster Davis
25 March 1862–11 October 1913 (~51)
79% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76% · poems 83%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
79% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 74% · poems 85%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
79% affinity
bio 76% · poems 82%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 86%