Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Lexical doublings in the beginning and ending of the first paragraph of "Cien años de soledad"

How many names are on page 134 in your copy of Claudia Rankine's "Citizen: An American Lyric"?

Clarifying a distinction between gerund constructions and relative clauses

"I know what every colored woman in this country is doing." – "What's that?": An exchange in Sula and Nel's final conversation in Toni Morrison's "Sula"

Reciting the spell I learned from García Márquez

"Our garden he cannot imagine": Denise Levertov and a boy with flowers in her poem "The Gulf"