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 Leslie Pinckney Hill
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
82% affinity
Shared: education
bio 77% · poems 88%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 84%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
80% affinity
bio 75% · poems 86%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
79% affinity
Shared: the crisis
bio 73% · poems 87%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
79% affinity
bio 75% · poems 84%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 86%
Langston Hughes
1 February 1902–22 May 1967 (~65)
78% affinity
Shared: african, life
bio 70% · poems 88%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: the crisis
bio 71% · poems 86%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
bio 73% · poems 83%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
77% affinity
Shared: harvard university
bio 72% · poems 84%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 81%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
77% affinity
bio 71% · poems 84%