Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

On "verbing", conversion, and anthimeria

"Eyes whose lids you burned off": The late turn to the Vietnam War in Denise Levertov's "The Sorrow Dance"

"When you're lost in the rain in Juarez, and it's Eastertime, too": Dylan, Judy Collins, Borges

Agents of their own choices in Barry Jenkins' "Moonlight" and Toni Morrison's "The Bluest Eye"

"I shall be ... you will be": Future modality in the Box Hill scene in Jane Austen's "Emma"

"The reader becomes disoriented": The stupid reader in an article on Toni Morrison's "Sula"