Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

"It's Snowdon!": The instant in Denise Levertov's "The Instant"

Angela Davis, Gerda Lerner, Toni Morrison, and the myths of the Black rapist and the bad Black woman

AAVE and Standard English in dialogue in Toni Morrison's "Sula"

"Beauty shops always had curtains or shades up. Barbershops didn’t": Hair and gender in Toni Morrison's "Song of Solomon"

"I didn't mean nothing by it, Mamma": Contesting an unstated implication in Toni Morrison's "Sula"

The six-year-old critic and "The Famous Five"