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Unless noted otherwise, events are held at the
National Arts Club. There is a dress code for events at the Club,
which is just east of Park Ave. South and 20th St.
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Upcoming Events
Jan. 19th, 6 PM
It Is Myself That I Remake/B>
Author and artist Alison Armstrong discusses Yeats' connection of the poetic process with sense memory. She will describe how his visual (emblems, symbols, forms) and auditory (percussive rather than harmonic) senses, along with the influence of Japanese Noh theater, influence his Four Plays for Dancers. Dr. Armstrong is author of The Herne's Egg by W.B. Yeats: The Manuscript Materials and recipient of an NEH Yeats Institute Fellowship in 2008.She teaches at the School of Visual Arts. Free. At the National Arts Club. To attend 8 p.m. dinner with Prof. Armstrong, send your check for $49, made out to the WB Yeats Society of NY, to be in our mailbox at the club by Friday, January 15.
February 1st 2010
Poetry Contest deadline
Jan 29th-31st 2010
Yeats Winter
Weekend Sligo, Lighter version of the summer school. The Director this year will be Professor John Kelly, Professor of English at Oxford University from 1976 to 2009 and now a Senior Research Fellow there. He has written extensively on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and has been Assistant Director and Director of the Yeats International Summer School on several occasions. The Director will be joined by the Guest Poet, Bernard O'Donoghue, Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, and lecturer in Medieval English.
The week-end includes lectures, poetry, music, and a tour of the Yeats Country, with an emphasis on the landscapes and places that inspired the poet and his talented family. The week-end begins on Friday evening, 29th January in the Sligo Park Hotel at 7.00 pm with introductions and a Poetry Reading by Bernard O'Donoghue. Activities on Saturday include a lecture from Professor Kelly, Family Politics and Family Poetics: Yeats and his Kin and another from Bernard O'Donoghue, 'To set a statesman right': Yeats, Heaney and Political Opinion.
The afternoon will include a tour of the Yeats Country, highlighting sites beloved by the poet and affording an opportunity to listen to Yeats’s poetry in the most appropriate setting possible.
Later, on Saturday evening, the Conference Dinner will take place at 7.30 pm in the Sligo Park Hotel, where participants can relax after the busy day’s schedule and later join other residents for a drink in the bar if they wish, where traditional music is available. On Sunday morning Professor Kelly’s second lecture is Hobbling Pegasus? What the Abbey Theatre did for Yeats (and Vice Versa). After lunch, participants may decide to leave or choose to explore further the local scenic and historic delights, and the Hotel is offering Sunday night as a complimentary bonus!
The Yeats Winter School is based in the comfort of the Sligo Park Hotel and Leisure Club, and provides a delightful week-end for those who enjoy cultural interests as well as luxury and culinary delights! At this time of year it could well be a special gift that is totally different and provides something to look forward to in 2010! The inclusive charge for the three nights and the full programme is per person sharing.
For further details please contact Geraldine or Margaret at the Sligo Park Hotel,
Tel.: 071 91 90400 or E-mail Sligo@LeeHotels.com or the Yeats Society, Tel.: 071 9142693 or E-mail info@yeats-sligo.com
Taste of Yeats Summer School
All-day program evoking spirit of the school in Ireland (see below). Program includes Profs. Jonathan Allison (UofKY and 2009 SS director), John Kelly (St. John's,Oxford) and Ronald Schuchard (Emory), both winners of our M.L. Rosenthal Golden Apple Award for contributions to Yeats studies; and Michael Wood (Princeton). Sam McCready presents a new version of The Great Yeats!, his one-man show about John Butler Yeats Includes a luncheon, social and summer school reunion (we may have many visitors from the summer school organization in Ireland). At NYU Glucksman Ireland House, One Washington Mews (Fifth Avenue between Washington Square and 8th Street). Fees Entire program, including refreshments, the afternoon social and the plays is $55 ($30 without lunch); morning only $19; afternoon with social $25; social only $10, . Special rates for paid-up Society members reserving by April 23rd. See detailed program.
April 30th 2010
Poem In Your Pocket Day. Remember to carry your favorite Yeats poem for sharing today.
July 25th-August 9th 2009
51st Annual
Yeats Summer School in Sligo
Tuition 650 euros for two weeks.Directors Jonathan Allison, University of Kentucky, and Maureen Murphy. The school will be opened by Helen Vendler on Sunday 26th July. There will be a poetry workshop, and poetry readings by Seamus Heaney, Michael Longley, Dennis O'Driscoll, Julie O'Callaghan, Justin Quinn, Peter McDonald and others, and a drama workshop led by Sam & Joan McCready. Lectures include:
- Denis Donoghue (NYU): Three Presences: Yeats, Eliot, Pound;
- Helen Vendler (Harvard): Vacillation: the Yeatsian Contraries;
- Roy Foster (Oxford): Yeats and Fascism;
- Terence Brown (Trinity): Yeats: the Colour of Poetry;
- Edna Longley (Queen's), Yeats's Other Island;
- John Kelly (Oxford):Inheriting a Philosophy of Life: W.B. Yeats's Debt to his Father
- Elizabeth Butler Cullingford (U of Texas): Cuchulain's Only Son
- David Fitzpatrick (TCD): Yeats and Sligo
- Ronald Schuchard (Emory): Yeats' Early Vision: Lost and Regained, 1903-1917
- Warwick Gould (U of London): Yeats, Arthur Symons and Symbolism
- Bernard O'Donoghue (Oxford): Yeats, Edward Walsh and the Gathering of Folklore
- Deirdre Toomey (U of London): Sent out naked on the roads Yeats's Phantasmagoria from The Cold Heaven to Cuchulain comforted
- Colbert Kearney (UC Cork), Yeats and O'Casey in the Abbey Theatre
- George Bornstein (U of Michigan): The Winding Stair and Other Poems
- Declan Kiely (Morgan Library): Yeats and Milton
- Meg Harper (Georgia State), Cuchulain the American
- Nicholas Allen (NUI Galway), Observing Jack Yeats
- Anne Margaret Daniel (New School U): Yeats the Literary Hero
- Peter McDonald (Oxford) Title forthcoming
- Maureen Murphy (Hofstra): Lily and Lolly Yeats: the American Dimension
- Jonathan Allison (U of Kentucky): The Old Moon-Phaser: Yeats, Auden and MacNeice.
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Seminars to include the following:
and others to be announced.For further information and application forms watch the Sligo web pages or contact the Yeats Society, Douglas Hyde Bridge, Sligo, Ireland; 011-353-7191-42693; fax 011-353-7191-42780
011-353-71-42693; fax: 071-91
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