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Taste of the Yeats Summer School April 25

Saturday, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. April 25

We were saddened to hear of the deaths of noted Yeats scholars Warwick Gould and Deirdre Toomey last month. At our “Taste of the Yeats Summer School” program on April 25 at NYU Glucksman Ireland House, Declan Kiely will present a talk written by the University of London Professor Gould, and we will have a short tribute to the couple.

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2026 Yeats Poetry Prizes

Excerpt from the report of the 2026 judge, Joseph O. Legaspi:

"What a privilege it was to serve as the judge of the 2026 Yeats Poetry Prizes! Although I must confess, I was initially intimidated by the hundreds of entries I had to sift through alone. But once I settled into a groove during those wintry days, weeks, months, I found myself comforted, uplifted, and charged by the poems. They made good companions, tour guides, and teachers. I was heartened not only by the breadth of subject matters, but the lyrical bravado and well-honed craft of the entries. A truism is that writing is a solitary and oftentimes lonely art, but I felt such a sense of community in my reading."

Visit the Awards page

Readings marking Poetry Month & presentation of the Yeats Poetry Prizes

Thursday, 6:00 p.m. April 16

At Barnes & Noble, Union Square, 33 East 17 Street at Park Avenue South. Free

WB Yeats Society of NY

Objectives

To act as an educational forum, primarily through lectures and events, for exchanging information about William Butler Yeats, his legacy and literary work, and people, places, events, and ideas that shaped his life and work.
To stimulate awareness of and interest in WB Yeats's life and work.
To provide information about Yeats events and organizations, particularly the Yeats International Summer School in Ireland and its sponsor, the Sligo-based Yeats Society, and other Yeats societies that, like ours, grew out of the summer school and Sligo society.

W. B.Yeats -- Who He Was, What He Wrote, Why He's Important

To learn more about our namesake, there are numerous online sources as well as your local library. Wikipedia and Britannica each feature short, well-documented summaries of his life and legacy. There are also important full-length biographies as well as free access to his complete works.

R.F. Foster's Seminal:

--W.B. Yeats a Life: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914, Foster, R. F.: ISBN 10: 0192117351 / ISBN 13: 9780192117359 Published by Oxford University Press, 1997.

--W. B. Yeats: A Life, Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 Foster, R. F. ISBN 10: 0192806092 / ISBN 13: 9780192806093 Published by Oxford University Press, 2005.

Terrence Brown's:

--The Life of W.B. Yeats - A Critical Biography Brown, Terence ISBN 10: 0717129136 / ISBN 13: 9780717129133 Published by Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1999.

Yeats's Poems, Plays and Essays:

Virtually all of Yeats's original poems, plays and prose pieces are now free for reading and downloading from Gutenberg.org. Browse for "Yeats." Leave a small donation if you can. The Gutenberg Project is an amazing archive of the world's great literature in the public domain.

Executive Board

Andrew McGowan, President
Alison Armstrong, Ph.D.
Emily Dunlap
Kate Gill
Luis Torres
Doris Marie Meyer
Maureen O. Murphy, Ph.D.
Eddie Vega

Emeritus

Don Bates
John J. Casey, Ph.D.
Carolyn McGuire, Ph.D.

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WB Yeats Society of NY

Objectives

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To act as an educational forum, primarily through lectures and events, for exchanging information about William Butler Yeats, his legacy and literary work, and people, places, events, and ideas that shaped his life and work. ​

To stimulate awareness of and interest in WB Yeats's life and work.

To provide information about Yeats events and organizations, particularly the Yeats International Summer School in Ireland and its sponsor, the Sligo-based Yeats Society, and other Yeats societies that, like ours, grew out of the summer school and Sligo society.​​​​

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W. B.Yeats -- Who He Was, What He Wrote, Why He's Important​

​

To learn more about our namesake, there are numerous online sources as well as your local library. Wikipedia and Britannica each feature short, well-documented summaries of his life and legacy. There are also important full-length biographies as well as free access to his complete works.

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R.F. Foster's Seminal:​​

​--W.B. Yeats a Life: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914, Foster, R. F.: ISBN 10: 0192117351 / ISBN 13: 9780192117359 Published by Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Executive Board

​​

Andrew McGowan, President

​Alison Armstrong, Ph.D.

Emily Dunlap

​Kate Gill

Luis Torres

Doris Marie Meyer

Maureen O. Murphy, Ph.D.

Eddie Vega

Emeritus

Don Bates

John J. Casey, Ph.D.

Carolyn McGuire, Ph.D.

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To act as an educational forum, primarily through lectures and events, for exchanging information about William Butler Yeats, his legacy and literary work, and people, places, events, and ideas that shaped his life and work.

To provide information about Yeats events and organizations, particularly the Yeats International Summer School in Ireland and its sponsor, the Sligo-based Yeats Society, and other Yeats societies that, like ours, grew out of the summer school and Sligo society.

W. B.Yeats -- Who He Was, What He Wrote, Why He's Important

R.F. Foster's Seminal:

--W.B. Yeats a Life: The Apprentice Mage 1865-1914, Foster, R. F.: ISBN 10: 0192117351 / ISBN 13: 9780192117359 Published by Oxford University Press, 1997.

Alison Armstrong, Ph.D.

Kate Gill