About this Event
Join in New York City on Thursday, April 24th, 2025 at 6:30pm as we welcome award-winning poet January Gill O’Neil and the winners of the 2025 Yeats Poetry Prize, sponsored by the WB Yeats Society of NY!
Admission is free, but please register to ensure you have a seat.
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To make this event safe and enjoyable for all attendees, please read the below guidelines ahead of reserving a ticket, so you know what to expect on the day. To avoid disappointment, we must stress that there will be no access to the event for non-ticketholders.
- Barnes & Noble reserves the right to make new rules and orders in its sole discretion with regard to COVID-19 at any time and any person not abiding by the Barnes & Noble directives will be refused entrance or directed to leave the premises.
TICKETING INFORMATION
General Admission - Free **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:
- Admission to the event space for the 2025 Yeats Poetry Prize.
Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.
Please arrive by 6:30PM in order to secure your seat in the event space. Late arrivals may only have access to standing room.
GUIDELINES
No large bags will be permitted into the event.
Ticket holders will be admitted into the event beginning at 6:30PM the day of the event. Please have a copy of your ticket available (either printed out or on your phone) for check in.
Due to health and safety and space limitations, those without a ticket will not be permitted into the event space.
Please note that Eventbrite is the only authorized dealer for this event. Each person must have a ticket to enter.
All event guidelines are subject to change.
If you have any additional questions, please call the store directly at: 212-253-0810.
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ABOUT WB YEATS SOCIETY OF NY:
Literary society The W.B. Yeats Society of New York was founded June 13, 1990, on the poet’s 125th birthday. The Society quickly became one of New York’s largest and most ambitious organizations dedicated to the life and work of a particular writer. It sponsors an international poetry competition, the Yeats Poetry Prize, shares links to other Yeats-related sites, and assists in establishing other Yeats societies in the U.S. Among its events is an annual "Taste of the Yeats Summer School,' an all-day Saturday program every spring that emulates the fortnight event in Ireland every summer.
Learn more at www.YeatsSociety.nyc and www.facebook.com/YeatsSociety
ABOUT YEATS POETRY PRIZE:
Now in its 28th year, the annual award is sponsored by the WB Yeats Society of NY (www.YeatsSociety.nyc). Previous judges include poets and writers L.S. Asekoff, Billy Collins, Alfred Corn, Jessica Greenbaum, Eamon Grennan, Ann Kjellberg, Alan Feldman, Campbell McGrath, Leslie McGrath, Samuel Menashe, Paul Muldoon, Marie Ponsot, Alice Quinn, Spencer Reese, Grace Schulman, Harvey Shapiro, and Bill Zavatsky.
ABOUT JANUARY GILL O’NEIL:
Award-winning poet January Gill O’Neil is an associate professor at Salem State University (Salem, MA) and author of Glitter Road (February 2024), Rewilding (2018), Misery Islands (2014), and Underlife (2009), all published by CavanKerry Press. Her poems and articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Academy of American Poets’ "Poem-A-Day" series, American Poetry Review, Poetry, and Sierra, among other publications. Her poem “At the Rededication of the Emmett Till Memorial” was a co-winner of the 2022 Allen Ginsberg Poetry award. Ms. O’Neil has received fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Cave Canem, and Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. From 2019-2020, she was John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, and is 2022-2023 board chair of the Association of Writers and Writers Programs (AWP). She earned her BA from Old Dominion University and her MFA from New York University. She lives in Beverly, MA, with her two children.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Barnes & Noble, 33 East 17th Street, New York, United States
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