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URL:https://sites.udmercy.edu/campusconnection/events/poet-laureate-melba-
 joyce-boyd-reading/
SUMMARY:Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd poetry reading
DESCRIPTION:As part of this year's Homecoming festivities\, Michigan's new 
 Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd will offer a poetry reading in UDM's brand 
 new Black Box Theatre. The reading is set for Saturday\, Sept. 27 at 6:30 
 p.m. The Black Box Theatre is located on the lower level of the Student U
 nion on the McNichols Campus.\n\nThis event is free and open to the public
  and is an official stop on the 2025 Michigan Poet Laureate Tour\, sponsor
 ed by the Michigan Department of Education and hosted by UDM's Department 
 of English.\n\nMichigan Poet Laureates serve as ambassadors for poetry thr
 oughout our state\, working to promote poetry as an art form\, expand acce
 ss to the literary arts and promote poetry as a literary voice that contri
 butes to a sense of place.\n\nBoyd is a recently retired distinguished pro
 fessor in African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is an aw
 ard-winning author of 13 books\, nine of which are poetry. Her works Death
  Dance of a Butterfly and Roses and Revolutions: The Selected Writings of 
 Dudley Randall were both honored by the Library of Michigan as Michigan No
 table Books selections. Boyd worked as an assistant editor for Mr. Dudley 
 Randall\, the founder of Broadside Press\, who was a member of the Univers
 ity of Detroit community for many years and who established UDM's Dudley R
 andall Poetry Prize. In 2023 Boyd was recognized as a Kresge Eminent Artis
 t.
LOCATION:Black Box Theatre\, 4001 W. McNichols Road\, Detroit\, MI\, 48221\
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