The International Yeats Society is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Helen Vendler—the outstanding scholar of Yeats and other modern poets, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard and regular contributor to the Yeats International Summer School. Helen has been a key inspiration for many Yeatsians and her books on Yeats Read more…
29th Annual Yeats Winter School – January 26th to 28th in Sligo. “A weekend of relaxation, lectures, music and a tour of Yeats Country.” Directed by James Pethica, with guests Paul Muldoon, Steve Wickham, and Anne Margaret Daniel. Program pdf below, with a downloadable link below it.
POETS’ ALERT: 2024 international W.B. Yeats Poetry Prize now open for submissions. 1st prize $1,000, 2nd prize $500, plus honorable mentions. Ends Feb. 1, 2024. Winners announced in early March. Submit your poetry here: https://yeats.submittable.com
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Final Deadline for Papers: August 25, 2023 Conference Dates: Wednesday 25 to Saturday 28 of October 2023 William Butler Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in Stockholm in December 1923. Thiswas an event that in many ways solidified Yeats’s place as one of the writers of the twentieth Read more…