Stones of Erasmus — for Teachers, Writers, & Philosophy Sprinkles Makers!

Hi, I’m Greig — welcome! Here you’ll find sharp writing, creative ideas, and standout resources for teaching, thinking, making, and dreaming in the middle and high school ELA and Humanities classroom (Grades 6–12).

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12.3.08

Book Review: The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald

Pairing image with text in a narrative is contradictory : the flowing voice of the narrator with the frozen, almost totemic, images, is a st...

17.2.08

Poem: "favor"

when you open your mouth it sounds like you’re going to say something horrible, but instead, what comes out is less worse than its preface: ...

24.12.07

Poem: "Why I’m Not a Good Lover"

when I was a kid I would swim to the bottom of the swimming pool and attempt to clutch the sandpaper bottom so as not to float back ...

23.12.07

Poem: Against the Bed Board

Against the Bed Board Against the bed board, it is painful; Eyes water, the video screen fuzzes. Fixated on a controller, It erases the pain...

1.12.07

Poem: "Disclaimer"

No need for grey-eyed pity, but my father never taught me how to shave left me like telemachus at the plow white lather rinsed sink s...

13.11.07

Nonfiction: Jocks and Goths

Jock or goth — geek, nerd, slut, queer, poser, wimp, shrimp, hippie, prep, emo — or in Shakespeare’s day, “You blocks, you stones, you wor...

30.10.07

Poem: 'Jakob'

Innocuous halls of a candy store: glass, safety, sweetness all around — somewhere in københavn, but it could have been anywhere, my love...

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