Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

How I learned about American history

If the states in the United States of America were separate countries

Epanorthosis in Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Monument”

Birdsong on a spring evening

How I “deeped my ear on the movietone” in a passage from James Joyce’s “Finnegans Wake” (1939)

“Primordial” memory in Denise Levertov’s poem “Becca” in “Evening Train” (1992)