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About the author

Larry J. Eriksson is a Wisconsin consultant, writer, and poet residing in Madison and Ellison Bay, Wisconsin. His poems preserve memories, clarify thoughts, explore feelings, or simply have fun with language. They have appeared in The Capitol Times, the Peninsula Pulse, the 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014 Poets' Calendars of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, the chapbooks No Breath is Lost and What Is Hidden published by the Dickinson Poetry Series, Verse Wisconsin, Equinox, and his chapbooks Moonlight, Moments, Mysteries, Music, MindGames, Marching, and Memories. He is a member of the Poetry Group of the UU Fellowship of Door County and the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. He is also the author of two books on sociopolitical issues, Business Decisions: the impact of corporate mergers and global capitalism on our lives and Broken Strings, Missing Notes: strengthening democracy and seeking justice in a nation out of tune, as well as many published technical papers and chapters in two engineering books. For over 30 years, he worked as a research engineer and manager specializing in acoustics, noise control, and signal processing. He received his B.S.E.E. from Northwestern University, M.S.E.E. from the University of Minnesota, and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In addition to writing, he enjoys reading, playing the violin, swimming, and cycling.

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Larry Eriksson can be reached at  erikres@execpc.com

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