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Heaney influenced a wide range of poets, including U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Tretheway. The poem South, from her 2007 Pulitzer Prize winning collection Native Guard, was inspired by Heaney's North. About her working with Heaney's poem and how it influenced her work, Tretheway said, "answering the call of our particular geographies and their attendant histories is a noble undertaking: a necessary one."

Tretheway teaches poetry at Emory University, where Heaney's influence has further reached. In 2003, Heaney chose to give his papers to Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The donation positioned MARBL as one of the most renowned collections of Irish literature in North America. Emory displayed Heaney's papers in an exhibit entitled, "The Music of What Happens," curated by Geraldine Higgins, who serves as director of Emory's Irish studies program. The exhibit ran from Oct. 2, 2013 to November 25, 2014.