January 30

Gboyega Odunbanjo

Gboyega Odunbanjo (born January 30, 1996) – British-Nigerian poet - Aunty Uncle Poems (2021)

Read more about Yega here and here

Read the poem "Breaking" here

Read "Against Resting in Peace" here

Odunbanjo reads some of his poems (minute 40:00) here


Lady Anne Clifford

Lady Anne Clifford (born January 30, 1590) – British diarist, activist for women’s legal rights – The Knole Diary (ca. 1603-1676)

Read about Anne Clifford in the Encyclopedia of World Biography

http://bit.ly/9GCsoY

Read a detailed biography of Lady Anne here:

http://www.microform.co.uk/guides/R97576.pdf

Lady Ann Clifford's journals here:

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027999014/cu31924027999014_djvu.txt


Jack Spicer

Jack Spicer (born January 30, 1925) – U.S. poet

Read about Jack Spicer here

This ocean, humiliating in its disguises
Tougher than anything.
No one listens to poetry. The ocean
Does not mean to be listened to ...

Read the entire poem at the As It Ought To Be blog


André Bjerke

André Bjerke (born January 30, 1918) – Norwegian poet and novelist

Read more about Bjerke here

Read a translation of Bjerke's poem "Amor Fati" here

Read a Norwegian language article about Bjerke here

Anton Tammsaare

Anton Tammsaare (born January 30, 1878) – Estonian novelist, playwright – Tõde ja õigus I-V, 1926-33 – Trubornth and Justice, Vol.1-5

Read the
Authors Calendar biography of Anton Tammsaare here