Richard Merelman is Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has published four volumes of poetry, of which the most recent, A Door Opens (Fireweed, 2020), received an Outstanding Achievement Award in 2021 from the Wisconsin Library Association. He has published poems in Lake Effect, 3rd Wednesday, The Road Not Taken, descant, THINK, and Pinch, among others. Privately published in March 2025 is My Americana, a chapbook of twenty poems, drawing on episodes in 19th and 20th century American history.
