Previous 2023 Programs

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SAVE YOUR PLACE: Celebrate the Great Yeats 158th Birthday with Great Craic and Special Irish Literary Dinner, Tuesday,        

June 13, 6-9PM:

For the good are always the merry,  
Save by an evil chance  

 

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Members and Nonmembers Welcome

When: Tuesday, June 13, Cash Bar 6-7:30, Dinner 7:30-9.

Where: Wolfe Tone’s Yeatsiana-decorated Irish Pub and Kitchen, 37 East 29th Street, just west of Park Avenue South.

What: Good craic with good music, poetry, food, and drink.

Food: Literary dinner with dishes cited in Yeats poetry and other Irish literature.

Talent: Yeats-Inspired Joseph Daniel Sobol live, playing songs from his “In the Deep Heart’s Core: A Mystical Cabaret,” described by The Chicago Sun-Times as “a rapturous weave of the irresistible sounds of Irish music and the steely but lyrical magic” of Yeats.

Price: All for $65, or $20 for cash bar only. Discounted prices for renewing members. See requirements below.

 

TO RESERVE (There Are Two Ways)

1. Send check and names and addresses to:

WB Yeats Society of NY  

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South

New York NY 10003

Return this form or a note indicating number of reservations:

Reception and dinner:

___at $65

­­___at $45 (paid-up members per renewal instructions below).

Reception only:

___at $20

___at no charge (renewing members, see instructions below).

 

2. OR Send Email to Executive Board Member Don Bates at batesdon1@msn.com. Include reservation details and attach image of payment check, which must be mailed by June 11th. We need counts in advance for reception and dinner. Any problems, email Don for solutions.

 

TO RENEW MEMBERSHIP

OR JOIN AS NEW MEMBER:​

Send check to:

WB Yeats Society of NY  

National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South

New York NY 10003​

Return this form or note indicating type and number of memberships, plus address information, including email: 

Regular

__$40 with $20 in prepaid program admissions.

__$30 without prepaid admissions.

__$15 for full-time students.

Contributing

__$50

Patron

__$75

Order of the Golden Dawn

__$100

__$1,000 lifetime

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We look forward to seeing you on the 13th.

Go raibh maith agat!

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Thursday, April 27, 6:30 p.m. Readings marking Poetry Month & presentation of the Yeats Poetry Prizes: See Awards section of this website for names of winners and judge's report. Held at Barnes & Noble Union Square, 33 East 17 Street, between Park Avenue South and Broadway.

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Saturday, May 20, 10AM-5PM,

"A Taste of the Yeats Summer School” . 

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All-day program evoking spirit of the school in Ireland (see below). Includes a social and summer school reunion. Speakers included Alison Armstrong on “Cuala, Dun Emer, Dolmen: Arts & Crafts with the Yeats Sisters”; Joseph Hassett on “Quotable Yeats – the Foam and the Deep,” about Yeats lines that not only capture a thought suitable for a particular life occasion, but also open the door to a deeper understanding of his poetry; staged reading of Mr. Hassett’s short play, "Wandering Stars," a revealing conversation between Yeats and James Joyce; short video talk by Mark C. Conner “The Ireland of W.B. Yeats"; and a guide to visiting the Yeats International Summer School, Sligo, and other places famously associated with the poet. At NYU Glucksman Ireland House, 1 Washington Mews (Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and 8th Street).

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Thursday, July 27-Friday, August 4:  64th Yeats International Summer School in Ireland. The theme was “Yeats on Location” on the centenary of the poet’s Nobel Prize. Co-directors Lucy Collins and Charley Armstrong; lecturers Rob Doggett, Margaret Mills Harper, Sean Hewitt, Michael McAteer, Emilie Morin, Jahan Ramazani, and Barry Sheils. Also, talks, walks, poetry, drama, and music. Visit Yeats Society, Sligo website, YeatsSociety.com, for rates for full 9-day or shorter registrations (including individual lectures and events), and information on scholarships. Write Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland for Info@YeatsSociety.com, telephone 011-353-7191-42693.

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2024 Yeats Poetry Prize, November 1, 2023-February 1, 2024, open to members and nonmembers of the Society of any age from any locality. First prize $1,000, second $500, honorable mentions. Winners and honorable mentions receive two-year memberships in the Society and are honored at a Poetry Month event in New York in April (pandemic permitting). Poems in English up to 60 lines, on any subject, not published at the time of submission may be entered. We prefer entry through the Submittable website at Yeats.Submittable.com/Submit between November 1 and February 1. Do not include author information in the poems themselves, but enter name, contact information and a short bio in the Submittable entry form. Entry fees are $15 for the first and $12 for each additional poem. Postal entries may be mailed to the National Arts Club address (check made out to WB Yeats Society of NY). Authors retain rights, but grant us the right to publish winning entries; however, winning poems accepted for publication elsewhere after submission may require permission from the publishing outlet.

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January 26 "Hooley" a Craic-ling Success

 

Yeats Society members and friends happily ate and drank for three hours while listening eagerly s-inspired, Irish-fired poetry and song in what can only be described as the best belated year-end literary society bash in town. Held at Flanagan's Pub on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, it featured the exceptional talents of our great friend of many years, internationally known Irish singer and instrumentalist, Gabriel Donohue, and of two of his gifted professional colleagues, fiddler Heather Bixler, and Irish-born singer, songwriter, and model, Cathy Maguire. The trio channeled Ireland's warmth and beauty and, most importantly, the memory and legacy of our namesake, WB Yeats.

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Andrea D'Arcy Mead at the Hooley, reading "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Constance Markievicz," and "The Stolen Child."

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