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 Gwendolyn B. Bennett
Georgia Douglas Johnson
10 September 1880–15 May 1966 (~86)
84% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, harlem
bio 80% · poems 88%
Anne Spencer
6 February 1882–27 July 1975 (~93)
83% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance, the crisis
bio 79% · poems 87%
Alice Dunbar Nelson
19 July 1875–18 September 1935 (~60)
81% affinity
Shared: harlem renaissance
bio 77% · poems 86%
Genevieve Taggard
28 November 1894–8 November 1948 (~54)
79% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 74% · poems 85%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
5 November 1850–30 October 1919 (~69)
79% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 71% · poems 88%
William Stanley Braithwaite
6 December 1878–8 June 1962 (~84)
79% affinity
Shared: harlem
bio 75% · poems 83%
Edna St. Vincent Millay
22 February 1892–19 October 1950 (~58)
78% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 70% · poems 88%
Alice Corbin
16 April 1881–18 July 1949 (~68)
78% affinity
Shared: history
bio 70% · poems 88%
Nora Hopper Chesson
2 January 1871–14 April 1906 (~35)
78% affinity
Shared: memory
bio 68% · poems 89%
Edna Wahlert McCourt
19 July 1887–4 January 1963 (~76)
78% affinity
Shared: history, memory
bio 71% · poems 86%
Frances E. W. Harper
24 September 1825–22 February 1911 (~86)
78% affinity
Shared: african, woman
bio 76% · poems 79%
Amy Lowell
9 February 1874–12 May 1925 (~51)
77% affinity
Shared: woman
bio 69% · poems 88%