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  • 1680

    John Wilmot – On the 26th of July 1680 at the aged of 33 John Wilmot passes away in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, [Woodstock, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom]

  • 1775

    Benjamin Franklin – On July the 26th 1775 Franklin is named as the first United States Postmaster General [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States]

  • 1856

    George Bernard Shaw – On the 26th of July 1856 George Bernard Shaw is born in Dublin, Ireland [Dublin, Ireland]

  • 1875

    Antonio Machado – Antonio Machado was born in Seville, Spain, in 1875. He had a younger brother called Manuel who would also become a poet. [Seville, Spain]

  • 1880

    Ruben Dario – Una lágrima is published in 1880 in the daily El Termómetro [León, Nicaragua]

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Black Ice Dies / Nigeria Prize Poetry Longlist – Poetry News Roundup July 24th

This week in our poetry news round up we look at the death of the pioneering spoken word artist Black Ice and the newly announced poetry longlist for the 2026 Nigeria Prize for Literature. Spoken Word Pioneer Black Ice Dies Aged 54 [caption id="attachment_20768" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Photo by Frank Micelotta/Getty Images[/caption] Black Ice, the Philadelphia poet who did as much as anyone to carry spoken word from the back rooms of open mic nights onto television ...


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