Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Allusions to two folk songs in Bruce Springsteen’s “The River” (1980)

Making memes out of quotation from Adrienne Rich poems and Toni Morrison novels: An assignment in my courses

A course discussing Sarfraz Manzoor’s memoir “Greetings from Bury Park”, Gurinder Chadha’s film “Blinded by the Light”, and three Bruce Springsteen songs

“I know you are reading this poem”: The repeated phrase in Adrienne Rich’s poem “Dedications"

Goethe’s character Serlo (from “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship”) on hearing a song, reading a poem, seeing a painting, and saying reasonable things — every day

Musicians I’ve seen most: members of The Grateful Dead and Hildegard Lernt Fliegen—and my friend Stefan Strittmatter