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 Lucian B. Watkins
Charles Frederick White
1876–1955 (~79)
83% affinity
Shared: soldier
bio 85% · poems 81%
Otto Leland Bohanan
c. 1895–6 December 1932 (~37)
83% affinity
Shared: the crisis, african
bio 79% · poems 87%
Roscoe C. Jamison
c. 1888–28 March 1918 (~30)
82% affinity
Shared: the crisis
bio 82%
Fenton Johnson
7 May 1888–17 September 1958 (~70)
82% affinity
Shared: african
bio 79% · poems 86%
Charles Bertram Johnson
5 October 1880–20 March 1958 (~78)
82% affinity
Shared: african
bio 80% · poems 85%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
82% affinity
Shared: world
bio 79% · poems 85%
Joseph Seamon Cotter Jr.
2 September 1895–3 February 1919 (~24)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 78% · poems 85%
Joshua Henry Jones
1876–14 December 1955 (~79)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 79% · poems 82%
John Wesley Holloway
28 July 1865–31 October 1935 (~70)
81% affinity
Shared: james weldon johnson, african
bio 79% · poems 83%
Benjamin Griffith Brawley
22 April 1882–1 February 1939 (~57)
81% affinity
Shared: african
bio 77% · poems 84%
Waverley Turner Carmichael
1881–1936 (~55)
80% affinity
Shared: faith
bio 80%
James Weldon Johnson
17 June 1871–26 June 1938 (~67)
80% affinity
bio 79% · poems 82%