“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

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

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.

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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