Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Albums from the 1980s that were central to me as I began to discover jazz

Remembering my radio shows that went from Abdullah Ibrahim (1934-2026) to Sheila Jordan

Memorizing a poem in a linguistics class (Denise Levertov’s “To the Reader”)

Finding Borges in Sarah Howe’s “An Error, A Ghost"

Making tiedyes with primary-school children

Remembering a 1999 exhibition in Paris of work by David Hockney (1937-2026)