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 Fenton Johnson
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
87% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 86% · poems 89%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
86% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 85% · poems 88%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
82% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 79% · poems 87%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
82% affinity
bio 79% · poems 86%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
82% affinity
bio 79% · poems 85%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
82% affinity
bio 81% · poems 82%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
81% affinity
bio 78% · poems 86%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
81% affinity
bio 78% · poems 85%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 75% · poems 87%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 75% · poems 87%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 76% · poems 84%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
79% affinity
bio 78% · poems 81%