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A program evoking spirit of the school in Sligo with Professor James Pethica of Yale.

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 a day in New York. Along with a full day of programs, there will be information on the 53rd Yeats Summer School, in County Sligo.

Presented by the WB Yeats Society of New York in partnership with Glucksman Ireland House NYU.

A program for the event is available here

Admission

Fill out, print, and send the Yeats Society's form, along with 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. Forms must be received by May 2, 2013.

Glucksman Ireland house members receive special rates with reservation.

Fees are $5 more at door.

• 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

Schedule
9:30am	Registration and refreshments Irish tea and coffee courtesy of Bewleys, baked goods all day
10:00am	Opening remarks Andrew McGowan, President, WB Yeats Society of NY
10:10am	"Little Magazines, Print Culture, and the Irish Literary Revival" Marjorie Howes, Boston College How the original publication of Revivalist poems and essays in particular print contexts might tell us about the origins, meaning, and development of the literary revival.
11:00am	"Nation for Art's Sake: Aestheticist Afterwords in Yeats's Irish Revival" Joseph Valente, University of Buffalo
11:50am	Refreshment break
12:10pm	"drunkard,, poet, pervert, most charming of men" Lucy McDiarmid, Montclair State University Yeats's ideas about the professional qualifications of poets.
1pm	Lunch Pre-booked members proceed to Pour George gastropub for an Irish lunch less than 5 minutes from Ireland House. Others are welcome, but order food separately. 35 W 8th Street between 5th and 6th Avenues.
2:30pm	2013 Yeats International Summer School Joan Boyle, Yeats Society of NY Board Member
2:35pm	Yeats and Keats Susan Wolfson, Princeton University Yeat's antipathy toward Keats vs. his repressed or unrecognized sympathy for Keats's poetics.
3:15pm	"Notes on Balladry and 'World Literature' " Maureen McLane, New York University An exploration with musical and textual examples of balladry as a verbal art and a musical form, its use and abuse for literary art, cultural nationalism, and theories of world literature and world music.
4pm	Poetry reading Maureen McLane, New York University Poet-critic Maureen McLane, whose recent book, My Poets, was described by The New York Times Book Review as a "delightful shock," but a "friendly book, inviting readers by its own example to let poems change them, too, even those... who feel they dislike poetry," reads from her own poetry.
4:15-5:00pm	Social and Summer School Reunion Wine and refreshments.