Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Preparing a discussion of poems by Jack Gilbert, Maggie Smith, and Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanaugh)

Forty years with my electric guitar—and a guitar strap

At the opening day of the Swiss Indoors with my daughter Luisa

A Roberto Burle Marx exhibition at the Paul Klee Center in Bern

The trolls in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and the fur traders in Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man"

My morning commute with Gabrielle Calvocoressi’s “The New Economy” (2025)