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 Benjamin Griffith Brawley
Leslie Pinckney Hill
14 May 1880–15 February 1960 (~80)
82% affinity
Shared: african, education
bio 77% · poems 88%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
82% affinity
bio 79% · poems 85%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
82% affinity
bio 82% · poems 81%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 77% · poems 84%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
80% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 86%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
79% affinity
Shared: african
bio 74% · poems 86%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: african
bio 73% · poems 86%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
79% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 80%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
79% affinity
Shared: howard university, african
bio 75% · poems 84%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
79% affinity
Shared: history
bio 76% · poems 82%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 83%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 82%