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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah was raised in Spring Valley, New York, and now lives in the Bronx. His debut collection, Friday Black, was a New York Times bestseller, won the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. His first novel Chain-Gang All-Stars was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, winner of the Inside Literary Prize, shortlisted...

“Love must be reinvented” — Arthur Rimbaud

Voyce will devote his talk to a single poem consisting of a single word written eight times in multiple directions, thus evoking three interlocking notions: singularity, repetition, and the infinite. The argument he will develop: a singular love can only become eternal through perpetual reinvention.