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 Robert Nathaniel Dett
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
78% affinity
Shared: african
bio 75% · poems 81%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
78% affinity
Shared: african
bio 74% · poems 83%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
78% affinity
Shared: music, african
bio 74% · poems 82%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 81%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
77% affinity
bio 74% · poems 80%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
76% affinity
Shared: african
bio 72% · poems 81%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
76% affinity
Shared: love
bio 73% · poems 81%
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
2 September 1895–3 February 1919 (~24)
76% affinity
Shared: african, power
bio 71% · poems 83%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
76% affinity
Shared: african, love
bio 70% · poems 83%
Countee Cullen
30 May 1903–9 January 1946 (~43)
76% affinity
Shared: african
bio 69% · poems 85%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
75% affinity
Shared: african
bio 72% · poems 80%
Theodore Henry Shackelford
29 May 1887–5 February 1923 (~36)
75% affinity
Shared: african
bio 73% · poems 78%