Exploring Yeats: A Discussion with Jim Kelleher & Sandy Lee Carlson

Live, In-Person & on Zoom:

We invite you to explore a selection of Yeats’ work with us! 

William Butler Yeats is a foremost Irish poet of the 20th century. Yeats’ poetry encompassed Irish history, mythology, and politics. He is considered a master poet for his command of imagery and emotional lyric poetry. He is universal. Poets and people in every country study him and the Irish celebrate his life and contribution to Ireland, and to the canon of world literature. 

Approximately one month before, we will have a packet of the selected poems for this discussion. We encourage you to read the poems beforehand.

Jim Kelleher lives in Goshen with his partner Queenie Troy and the wild birds they feed. Jim has taught in many schools, currently WCSU, published many books including most recently You Don’t Have To Thank Me For This, and lived many dreams, among them Woodstock, the Boston Public Schools, California, Jim’s Fine Carpentry, and Cape Breton Island, Canada. He is dedicated to poetry, democracy, and living out his life in peace.

Sandy Lee Carlson is poet laureate emerita of Woodbury and a school teacher at Region20/Lakeview High School. She hosts the Orenaug Poetry Group on the second Saturday of each month in Woodbury. She and her husband run Orenaug Mountain Publishing. Find out more about Sandy and her poetry at sandycarlson.net.