Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

From curse and praise poems to anaphora, epistrophe, and symploce with Martín Espada, St. Paul, and The Spinners

The story I heard about the length of compact discs – and one engineer's version of the story

Taking sides in reading Bharati Mukherjee's "The Management of Grief", a story that "flutters between two worlds"

Approximating the undercounting of coronavirus vaccination rates in Germany

Kyrie Irving and coronavirus; Magic Johnson and HIV: Another Republican lie

Multilingualism in literature and supermarkets in Switzerland