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 Georgia Douglas Johnson
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
84% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 80% · poems 88%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
83% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 80% · poems 87%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
83% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 78% · poems 89%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
82% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, racial
bio 79% · poems 87%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 76% · poems 87%
Alice Dunbar Nelson
19 July 1875–18 September 1935 (~60)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, women
bio 77% · poems 85%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
80% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 73% · poems 89%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
80% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 78% · poems 83%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
80% affinity
Shared: women, woman
bio 71% · poems 90%
Frances E. W. Harper
24 September 1825–22 February 1911 (~86)
79% affinity
Shared: racial, women
bio 78% · poems 81%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
79% affinity
bio 71% · poems 88%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 73% · poems 85%