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 Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
Joseph Seamon Cotter Sr.
12 February 1861–14 March 1949 (~88)
89% affinity
Shared: african, louisville
bio 89%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, great migration, world war i
bio 80% · poems 85%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
81% affinity
Shared: tuberculosis, fisk university
bio 81%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 85%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, african
bio 77% · poems 85%
James D. Corrothers
2 July 1869–12 February 1917 (~48)
79% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 79%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: african, racial
bio 75% · poems 83%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
78% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, african
bio 75% · poems 82%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
78% affinity
Shared: world war i
bio 78%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
78% affinity
Shared: african
bio 73% · poems 84%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 74% · poems 82%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
78% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 81%