WB Yeats Society of New York

New Dublin bridge to bear Yeats name?

WillLinden — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:27:48 +0000

“As part of the same proposal, councillors will consider naming the new Liffey crossing at Marlborough Street the William Butler Yeats Bridge.”

This was part of a bill to rename the East Link Bridge after Bram Stoker.

via New bridge name may honour Dracula writer – News, Frontpage – Herald.ie.

Launch for new “Vision” book May 11th

WillLinden — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 15:01:51 +0000

Friday, May 11th at 6PM the Society hosts the launching of Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: Explications and Contexts, the first ever volume of essays devoted to the poet’s privately published 1925 volume on philosophical, historical, astrological, and poetic topics based on the automatic writing experiments he did with his wife George. The book, edited by Neil Mann, Matthew Gibson and Claire Nally, has essays by them, Meg Harper, Wayne Chapman, Catherine Paul and others, and is published by Clemson University Press in South Carolina, in print and digital versions. We will have short presentations by Profs. Paul (“The place of Ezra Pound in A Vision”), Chapman (“A Vision’s poetry and Blake’s ‘Mental Traveler’”), and Mann (“The dualistic universe of A Vision”). Copies of the book will be available, at a discount, for signing. At the National Arts Club. Free.

To attend 8 p.m. dinner with the speakers, send your check for $49, made out to the WB Yeats Society of NY, to be in our mailbox at the club by May 9.

Poem in Your Pocket Day

WillLinden — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:19:50 +0000

April 26th is Poem in Your Pocket Day. To celebrate, works by great poets, including Yeats, will be showing on the big screen at Broadway and 44th.

Do your part by carrying your favorite Yeats poem today.

Schuchard to be AAAS fellow

WillLinden — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 19:22:13 +0000

Professor Ronald Schuchard, who has for some time been in the ranks of the Society’s Rosenthal Fellows (the Golden Apple Award), has been named a fellow of the American Academy of arts and Sciences… and according to local coverage, also has “an amazing headshot.”

Schuchard will be speaking at the upcoming 2012 Yeats Summer School on “The Wanderings of Yeats and Oisin.”

Yeats on SMASH?

WillLinden — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 21:16:52 +0000

Tonight’s episode of NBC’s SMASH will reportedly include a performed setting of “Never Give All the Heart”.

New spring events announced

WillLinden — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:57:00 +0000

The updated schedule of Society events for Spring 2012 has been added to the site.

Occasions coming up include Philip Marcus speaking on W. B. Yeats’s Manuscripts and the Rehumanizing of Literary Studies on April 12th; the book launching of Yeats’s ‘A Vision’: Explications and Contexts on May 12th; and our Yeats’ birthday celebration on June 13th. Also take mind of the Taste of Yeats Summer School on April 14th.

Poetry Reading April 2nd at Barnes & Noble Union Square

WillLinden — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:49:28 +0000

On April 2nd, the Society will hold its annual celebration of Poetry Month and Yeats at Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St., north of Union Square. Festivities commence at 6:30.

The event will feature readings of the winning entries from our annual Poetry Competition, and formal presentation of the awards by Judge Bill Zavatsky

See elsewhere on this site for the full text of the winning poems and Mr. Zavatsky’s report on the process of judging.

Taste of Yeats Summer School to be held at NYU, April 14th

WillLinden — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:41:24 +0000

The annual Taste of Yeats Summer School, a program of lectures, presentations and fellowship offering a “sampler” of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo, will be held on Saturday, April 14th from 9:30 to 5. The venue will once more be NYU’s Glucksman Ireland House at 1 Washington Mews.

Among speakers will be Summer School director James Pethica, Martin and Joyce Enright, and poet Anne-Marie Fyfe.

Registration: Entire program, including luncheon, refreshments and the afternoon social is $45 ($30 without the luncheon); morning
only $20;

afternoon with social $25;

social only $10.

Send a check to WB Yeats Society of NY, National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, NYC 10003 with your name, address, phone number, e-mail. Put the date on your calendar; your name will be on a registration list at the door. Fees are $5 more at door.

For further details, see the full program on this site.

Read winning Poetry Contest entries

WillLinden — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:29:52 +0000

The full text of the report by judge Bill Zavatsky and the text of the winning entries is now available here.

There will be a public reading and awards presentation on Monday, April 2nd, 6:30 PM, at Barnes & Noble, 33 E. 17th St., north of Union Square.

Read contest report.

Eamon Grennan reading Wednesday

WillLinden — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:42:04 +0000

Poets House announces:

Passwords: Eamon Grennan on W.B. Yeats

Poet and scholar Eamon Grennan gives an overview and offers close readings of several poems by the great Irish modernist. March 28th, 7PM at Kray Hall, 10 River Terrace. Admission $10, Students and seniors $7, Poets House members free. For details and directions see http://www.poetshouse.org/about/tour-our-space/visiting/ or call (212) 431-7920