Step+9


 * Select one poet and one poem to present to the class** (5-7 minutes). In your presentation, you should introduce your poet and give a brief account of his/her life. You must be able to recite one poem from memory; however, you may recite more if you so choose. You may include props, visuals or costumes in your presentation; but you should NOT create your presentation around a PowerPoint or on a video. Be creative. Become your poet. Be dramatic and, as always, WOW us.

To prove that nothing really disappears and nothing comes of nothing, days like these we go down to the beach and dig for hours hauling up glass and creel bones from the sand, veins of razor shell and drifted oil, buttons and fishnets, bottles, scraps of sail; and think how our language harbours the tongues of our elders, Norse and Gaelic buried in the map, fragments of Sanskrit shining through the hymnals. More than we pretend of what we do is restoration: dreaming into life a world that’s neither past nor primitive, but fresh as the cream of the well, of some upland source concealed under plywood boards and nettles – wine-dark, aboriginal.
 * "Ro nan" b y John Burnside