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 Charles Bertram Johnson
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
87% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 86% · poems 89%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
86% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 83% · poems 89%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
85% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 83% · poems 87%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
83% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 80% · poems 87%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
83% affinity
bio 82% · poems 85%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
83% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar, world war i
bio 83%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
82% affinity
bio 82%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
82% affinity
Shared: paul laurence dunbar
bio 79% · poems 86%
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
82% affinity
bio 80% · poems 85%
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
2 September 1895–3 February 1919 (~24)
82% affinity
Shared: great migration, harlem renaissance, world war i
bio 80% · poems 85%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
82% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 79% · poems 85%
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
82% affinity
Shared: life
bio 83% · poems 79%