Tribute to W.B. Yeats with Timothy Donnelly and Lynn Melnick

Award-winning poetry by established and emerging poets throughout the summer.

Bryant Park is proud to honor the work of 20thj-century poet, dramatist, and critic, William Butler Yeats.

Timothy Donnelly is the author of four collections of poetry: Chariot (Wave Books, 2023); The Problem of the Many (Wave Books, 2019); The Cloud Corporation (Wave Books, 2011); and Twenty-seven Props for a Production of Eine Lebenszeit (Grove Press, 2003). His work has also been translated into German and appears in the poetry anthologies Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande Books, 2006), edited by Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin; Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, and Poet (Autumn House Press, 2006); Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009), edited by Helen Vendler. Donnelly is a recipient of Columbia University’s Distinguished Faculty and Faculty Mentoring Awards, the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, and The Paris Review’s Bernard F. Connors Prize, as well as fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the New York State Writers Institute, and the T. S. Eliot Foundation.  Donnelly has served as the poetry editor at the Boston Review. He is also a professor in the writing program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Lynn Melnick is the author of three poetry collections, including, most recently Refusenik, winner of the Julie Suk award, and a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. She is also the author of the memoir, I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton. She teaches at Princeton University and Columbia University, and lives in  Brooklyn with her family.