Dr. Lara Whelan is an English professor at Siena College with a specialty in Irish literature. She will be giving a talk on William Butler Yeats, a renowned Nobel-prize-winning poet and playwright. Many are unaware of his interest in, and promotion of, the occult and its deep impact on his writing. Come hear about Yeats' involvement in seances and spirit writing, his book written with the assistance of his spirit guide, his invention, with Maud Gonne, of his own version of the esoteric Order of the Golden Dawn, and other otherworldly influences on Yeats' art, just in time for Halloween!