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 Otto Leland Bohanan
Lucian B. Watkins
25 May 1879–2 February 1921 (~42)
83% affinity
Shared: the crisis, african
bio 79% · poems 87%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
81% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 78% · poems 86%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
81% affinity
Shared: racial, african
bio 78% · poems 85%
Raymond Garfield Dandridge
c. 1882–24 February 1930 (~48)
81% affinity
Shared: life
bio 77% · poems 87%
Paul Laurence Dunbar
27 June 1872–9 February 1906 (~34)
81% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 77% · poems 86%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
80% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 84%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
80% affinity
Shared: racial, harlem
bio 76% · poems 86%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
80% affinity
Shared: harlem, life
bio 76% · poems 85%
James Edwin Campbell
28 September 1867–26 January 1896 (~29)
80% affinity
bio 74% · poems 86%
Edward Smyth Jones
March 1881–28 September 1968 (~87)
79% affinity
Shared: new york city
bio 74% · poems 85%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: racial
bio 77% · poems 82%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
79% affinity
Shared: howard university
bio 75% · poems 84%