Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Remembering hearing about the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida

"Telling their history by themselves": The negation of novels in Charles Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"

"I feel like we might say our vowels differently": In defense of Seth Meyers on a plural and a pronunciation

"Strange, bewildered, and confused": The shock of industrialization in Charles Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop"

Brecht's "To Those Born Later" as a plea against "presentism"

The "small back room" and "inspired notes" of poetry: Ciaran Carson, Wayne Miller, Tomas Transtrømer