Date/Time
Date(s) - September 27, 2025
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
Black Box Theatre
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 Union on the McNichols Campus.
This event is free and open to the public and is an official stop on the 2025 Michigan Poet Laureate Tour, sponsored by the Michigan Department of Education and hosted by UDM’s Department of English.
Michigan Poet Laureates serve as ambassadors for poetry throughout our state, working to promote poetry as an art form, expand access to the literary arts and promote poetry as a literary voice that contributes to a sense of place.
Boyd is a recently retired distinguished professor in African American Studies at Wayne State University. She is an award-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 Notable Books selections. Boyd worked as an assistant editor for Mr. Dudley Randall, the founder of Broadside Press, who was a member of the University of Detroit community for many years and who established UDM’s Dudley Randall Poetry Prize. In 2023 Boyd was recognized as a Kresge Eminent Artist.
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