As part of this year’s 2025 Homecoming festivities, Michigan’s new Poet Laureate Melba Joyce Boyd will offer a poetry reading in University of Detroit Mercy’s brand new Black Box Theatre!
This event is free and open to the public. An official stop on the 2025 Michigan Poet Laureate Tour, the reading is sponsored by the Michigan Department of Education and hosted by UDM’s Department of English. All are welcome to participate Homecoming festivities before and after the reading.
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.
Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd is a recently retired distinguished professor in African American Studies at Wayne State University. Dr. Boyd 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. She 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 Dr. Boyd was recognized as a Kresge Eminent Artist.
More on Detroit Mercy’s English Department: https://linktr.ee/DetroitMercyEnglish
Directions to Campus: University of Detroit Mercy – McNichols Campus, 4001 W. McNichols Road, Detroit, MI
Enter the campus using the entrance on W. McNichols Road and follow the signs to Parking Lot B next to Reno Hall. The Black Box Theatre is located on the lower level of the Student Union.
Parking is free of charge for theatre patrons on University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols Campus.
Campus Map: https://www.udmercy.edu/about/files/mcnichols-map.pdf
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