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 Anne Spencer
Gwendolyn B. Bennett
8 July 1902–30 May 1981 (~79)
83% affinity
Shared: the crisis, harlem renaissance
bio 79% · poems 87%
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 76% · poems 87%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
80% affinity
Shared: life, world
bio 71% · poems 91%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
80% affinity
Shared: life, heart
bio 73% · poems 88%
Lizette Woodworth Reese
9 January 1856–17 December 1935 (~79)
79% affinity
Shared: garden, life
bio 72% · poems 88%
Alice Dunbar Nelson
19 July 1875–18 September 1935 (~60)
79% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 76% · poems 83%
Emily Dickinson
10 December 1830–15 May 1886 (~56)
79% affinity
Shared: life
bio 70% · poems 89%
Edith M. Thomas
12 August 1854–13 September 1925 (~71)
79% affinity
Shared: garden
bio 72% · poems 87%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
79% affinity
bio 73% · poems 86%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: world, love
bio 70% · poems 89%
Amelia Alderson Opie
12 November 1769–2 December 1853 (~84)
78% affinity
Shared: life
bio 69% · poems 89%
Anna Hempstead Branch
18 March 1875–8 September 1937 (~62)
78% affinity
bio 75% · poems 82%