Three poets—Melissa Range, Richard Merelman, and Mark Kraushaar—present new works on history, the five senses, and uncertainty.
New Poetry from Wisconsin
Melissa Range is the author of Printer’s Fist, winner of the 2025 Vanderbilt Literary Prize (Vanderbilt University Press, 2026), as well as Scriptorium (Beacon Press, 2016) and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.
Richard Merelman, a native of Washington, D. C., is Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Imaginary Baritone (Fireweed Press), his first book of poems appeared in 2012. In 2016, Finishing Line Press published his chapbook The Unnamed Continent. In 2017, Bent Paddle Press published his Sensorium, another chapbook. He has published individual poems in journals, such as Main Street Rag, Lake Effect, Stonbeboat, and Measure. He and his wife, Sally Hutchison, live in Madison, WI.
Mark Kraushaar’s poetry has been included in Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, and Yale Review as well as the website Poetry Daily and Ted Kooser’s American Life in Poetry. He has been a recipient of Poetry Northwest’s Richard Hugo Award. A full-length collection, Falling Brick Kills Local Man was published by University of Wisconsin Press, as winner of the 2009 Felix Pollak Prize. A recent collection, The Uncertainty Principle published by Waywiser Press, was chosen by James Fenton as winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize you. Mark has worked as a pipe welder, wig salesman, shoe factory line worker, waiter, motel clerk and, most recently as an RN.
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