Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

The second-generation immigrant becomes a migrant herself: Denise Levertov's "A Map of the Western Part of the County of Essex in England"

"If you had real houses back in Africa": Americans and Africa in a story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

On first reading Paul Celan, for his 100th birthday

How my grandfather changed his offensive jokes in the 1970s

"The large majority are over eighty years old": Ueli Maurer and the lives he sees as expendable

November 19, the Gettysburg Address, and Lt. Col. Vindman