Welcome to 111 Words, by Andrew Shields

Tucumcari and Route 66 in a poem by Gregory Stapp

Counting to high numbers and reciting poems to suppress evil thoughts in Charles Dickens’s “Hard Times” (1854)

Teaching four sections of a course in a week – and improvising a summary of the Bible

“Double consciousness” in Jordan Peele and Toni Morrison

United States President Donald Trump and “raw earth”, his eggcorn for “rare earth"

On poet Adrienne Rich’s husband, father, sister, and brother-in-law