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  • Essay
    • The violence of frenzy
      The violence of frenzy
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      The sound of roots
    • Summer’s lease
      Summer’s lease
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      Deep Roots
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      Hope and Expectation
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      No Trespassing
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    • Volume 1
      • 0.1 Intro
      • 1.1 Margins
      • 1.2 Living with the Seasons
      • 1.3 Thriftiness
      • 1.4 Noise and Silence
      • 1.5 Bodies
      • 1.6 Transportation
      • 1.7 Waterways
      • 1.8 My Economy
      • 1.9 Sharing Food
      • 1.10 Coming and Going
    • 2.1 Labor
    • 2.2 Bridges
    • 2.3 Shops & Stores
    • 2.4 The Darkest Night
    • 2.5 Sabbath
    • 2.6 Local Government
    • 2.7 Solastalgia
    • 2.8 Borders & Boundaries
    • 2.9 Play

Tom Springer

Tom Springer lives in an old farmhouse near Three Rivers, Michigan, with his wife Nancy and their two daughters. By day, he’s a communications manager at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek. On his own time, he gardens, fishes, keep bees, prays, procrastinates and writes about the curious intersect between people and the natural world -- what he’s termed “the wild nearby.” His first collection of essays, Looking for Hickories (University of Michigan Press, 2009), was named a Michigan Notable Book. He will soon (a dangerous word, that) complete his second collection of essays, tentatively titled The Star in the Sycamore.

Stargazers
EssayJanuary 13, 2016

Stargazers

By Tom Springer

If it hadn’t been for a dog that refused to sleep in the house, I might have never given the stars a second glance….

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Ten things writers have to say about writing
EtceteraDecember 29, 2015

Ten things writers have to say about writing (plus blindness, gardening, sandboxes…)

By Tom Springer

“It’s really, really hard to make something that’s interesting. It’s like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that’s written or…

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How to tell when it’s winter in a Michigan farmhouse
EssayNovember 11, 2015

How to tell when it’s winter in a Michigan farmhouse

By Tom Springer

The years have a way of making technology lose its bluster. And so do the centuries. When our southern Michigan farmhouse was built, the…

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A river gone wild in the city
EssayOctober 21, 2015

A river gone wild in the city

By Tom Springer

e live in two worlds, writes Minnesota poet Tom Hennen. The first includes “airplanes and power plants, all the machinery that surrounds us, the…

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About Topology

Topology Magazine

Topology Magazine is a place for active contemplation through prose, poetry, and art: the produce of thoughtful labor in the places where we find ourselves. Each person is inextricably tied to their physical location, and Topology cultivates that connection by publishing work which explicitly or implicitly recognizes the influence of place. Read more …

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