Session 6A: Room: MNL 121, Miller Nichols Learning Center, 800 East 51st Street, Kansas City, MO, Chair: Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem, City University of New York / Kingsborough

Poetic Relationships and the Creative Process

David McLoghlin, Independent Scholar and Poet, "A Transatlantic Menagerie: The Animal Poetry of Bishop, Lowell, Heaney, and Grennan" (Originally published in Poetry Ireland Review issue 119, autumn 2016.)

Rebecca Ziegler, Georgia Southern University, "Derek Mahon and J.G. Farrell: A Friendship and its Artistic Fruit"

So Young Park, Gustavus Adolphus College, "Poetry and Ornithology: Yeats, Tynan, Ussher, and Warren"