Film and food: our last event of the season

Don’t miss the last event of our season: A Celebration of W.B. Yeats’s 146th birthday, with short films about the poet (free) followed by a “literary dinner” ($49). See details of both below. At the National Arts Club. No reservation necessary for the films. To

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Ann Saddlemyer to speak at the National Arts Club

Dear Yeatsian, Please attend the WB Yeats Society of NY’s program with Ann Saddlemyer this Friday at the National Arts Club… and if you’d like to attend the dinner with her after, get your reservation in. See details below. Thursday, May 26, 7 pm ”

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A Taste of Ireland’s Yeats Summer School in New York

Every summer, aficionados of the poet William Butler Yeats come from all over the world to enjoy two weeks of lectures, readings and theater in Sligo, Ireland, and to tour nearby “Yeats Country.” Here is an opportunity to sample the Yeats International Summer School for

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Winners of Yeats Poetry Prize to read at Barnes & Noble

Winners of the 2011 W.B. Yeats Society of NY Poetry Competition will be reading their winning entries. Judge Samuel Menashe, recipient of Poetry Foundation’s $50,000 first “Neglected Masters Award,” and former judge and award-winning Irish poet Eamon Grennan will be joining them. Click here to

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April – May programs

In May, there will be seven Yeats events from us and other organizations. But first our annual kick off of poetry month and presentation of our poetry competition awards. April 4 Monday, April 4, 6:30-7:30 p.m. Readings Marking Poetry Month and Presentation of Our Poetry

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