Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Spinoza as "magnification" in "Borges y yo"

How "breathing out / poems" turns them into "a mask I had not meant / to wear": Denise Levertov's "A Cloak"

A visual form of "locker-room talk" that Matt Gaetz's friends in Congress apparently accept

"But this was not what you wanted": The vision of community in Adrienne Rich's "A Woman Dead In Her Forties"

"Do not travel to Switzerland due to COVID-19": A US Embassy Advisory and the scope of negation

"It's not a sport if it doesn't matter if you lose": The proposed Super League and professional team sports in North America