Ireland, Irish America, and Work

Donna L. Potts is Professor of English at Washington State University, USA. She is the author of two books about poetry, Howard Nemerov and Objective Idealism and Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, as well as a book of her own poetry, Waking Dreams. She is also the author of Irish Writing and Environmentalism: The Wearing of the Deep Green (2018), the editor of This Landscape's Fierce Embrace: Francis Harvey (2013), and co-editor of Region, Nations, Frontiers: Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Region and Nation Literature Association (2008).Amy L. May is an Instructional Designer at Washington State University, USA. She also teaches Writing at Dixie State University, USA. Her interests include nineteenth-century transatlantic literature, gender construction, poetry, and early twentieth-century female authors. Her creative writing and poetry have been published in the Salmon Creek Journal.