{"id":23310,"date":"2025-10-22T12:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T16:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=23310"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:31:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T17:31:20","slug":"student-spotlight-sam-abedi-highlights-poet-laureate-event-in-between-the-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2025\/10\/22\/student-spotlight-sam-abedi-highlights-poet-laureate-event-in-between-the-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Sam Abedi highlights Poet Laureate event in &#8216;Between the Pages&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Melba-Joyce-Boyd.jpg?resize=300%2C127&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"An image of poet laureate Melba Joyce Boyde at poetry reading during Homecoming weekend.\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Melba-Joyce-Boyd.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Melba-Joyce-Boyd.jpg?resize=768%2C326&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Melba-Joyce-Boyd.jpg?w=825&amp;ssl=1 825w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Biology major and Literature minor Sam Abedi wrote about the recent Homecoming reading by Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd, the first poetry reading in the University\u2019s brand new Black Box Theatre! The piece appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/detroitmercyenglish.com\/\"><em>Between the Pages<\/em><\/a>, the English Department\u2019s digital magazine.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/detroitmercyenglish.com\/2025\/10\/16\/udms-new-black-box-theatre-hosts-its-first-poetry-reading-with-michigan-poet-laureate-dr-melba-joyce-boyd\/\">Read full story here.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biology major and Literature minor Sam Abedi wrote about the recent Homecoming reading by Michigan Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd, the first poetry reading in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":23309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4083],"tags":[7123,6164,6165,6523,7124,3684,7149,7091,7092,198,5716,4223],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/10\/Melba-Joyce-Boyd.jpg?fit=825%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-63Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23310"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23310"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23313,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23310\/revisions\/23313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}