2026 Yeats Poetry Prize

Join Barnes & Noble - Union Square in New York City on Thursday, April 16th, 2026 at 6PM as we welcome this year's judge, two-time New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow, Joseph O. Legaspi,and the winners of the 2026 Yeats Poetry Prize, sponsored bythe 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.

TICKETING INFORMATION

General Admission - Free **LIMITED QUANTITY AVAILABLE**: A ticket PER PERSON includes:

• Admission to the event space for the 2026 Yeats Poetry Prize.

Ticket holders will be admitted into the event beginning at 5:30PM the day of the event. Please have a copy of your ticket available (either printed out or on your phone) for check in.

Please arrive by 6PM 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.

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.

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.

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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 JOSEPH O. LEGASPI:

Joseph O. Legaspi is a poet, the author of two full-length poetry collections and two full-length poetry chapbooks. He is a Fulbright scholar and two-time NYSCA/New York Foundation for the Arts poetry fellow. He teaches creative writing at NYU and Fordham and is assistant to the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes at Columbia University. He is a juror of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature. Legaspi was born in the Philippines, moved to Los Angeles with his family at age twelve, and received a BA from Loyola Marymount University there; then he received an MFA from New York University’s creative writing program and relocated to New York City. With the poet Sarah Gambito, he co-founded Kundiman, a national organization serving generations of writers and readers of Asian American literature. His poem "Ode to My Mother's Hair" was anthologized in Language for a New Century (W.W. Norton) and his poem "Somebody" appeared in Poem-A-Day from the Academy of American Poets. In April 2019, Orion Magazine chose his poem "The Three Sparrows" as one of its top seven works for National Poetry Month.