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February 21, 2025
Dr. Melba Joyce Boyd has been selected to be the next Michigan Poet Laureate.
Dr. Boyd is a recently retired distinguished professor in African American Studies at Wayne State University and is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Michigan in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies. Her poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction have appeared in anthologies, academic journals, cultural periodicals and newspapers in the United States and Europe. The Kresge Foundation honored her as the 2023 Kresge Eminent Artist.
She has a doctor of arts in English from the University of Michigan and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in English from Western Michigan University.
Learn more about Dr. Boyds appointment by reading the full press release and by visiting Michigan.gov/PoetLaureate.