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  • 1725

    John Newton – John Newton was born in 1725 in Wapping, London. His father was a shipmaster and his mother died from tuberculosis when Newton was very young. [Wapping, London, United Kingdom]

  • 1827

    Kobayashi Issa – On July the 24th Issa\'s house burnt down [Shinano, Nagano, Japan]

  • 1872

    Ralph Waldo Emerson – Emerson's Concord home caught fire and the neighbours did their best to save as much of the contents as they could. Donations of up to $5,000 were given by friends to help him rebuild. [Concord, Massachusetts, United States]

  • 1895

    Robert Graves – Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, Surrey, in 1895. The third of five children, his father was a school inspector and Gaelic scholar. [Wimbledon, Surrey, United Kingdom]

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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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