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    • The violence of frenzy
      The violence of frenzy
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      The sound of roots
    • Summer’s lease
      Summer’s lease
    • Editorial
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  • Image
    • Deep Roots
      Deep Roots
    • Hope and Expectation
      Hope and Expectation
    • No Trespassing
      No Trespassing
  • Quote
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    • Upcoming
    • 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

Alek Frost

Alek Frost lives in Three Rivers, Michigan. He was raised in Bay City, Michigan, and attended college at Central Michigan University. He drinks more coffee than any reasonable person should, is a self-proclaimed pun king and an avid basketball fan. He is a staff writer for the Three Rivers Commercial-News and loves the sense of community and togetherness he feels while living in downtown Three Rivers.

Meet the government: Tom Springer
ImageFebruary 17, 2017

Meet the government: Tom Springer

By Alek Frost

Editor’s Note: For the Local Government issue of Topology, we interviewed individuals who have been involved in local government in and around Three Rivers,…

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The Heart of Small Business
ImageNovember 21, 2016

The Heart of Small Business

By Alek Frost

Photo by Deborah Haak That really is the heart of our business: getting to know our customers and them getting to know us on…

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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 …

Contributors

  • Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
  • mt
  • the daily asterisk
  • Marjorie Maddox
  • Alex Joyner
  • Katie Hoogendam
  • William Overbeeke
  • Alex Quick
  • Bethany Beachum
  • Karissa Knox Sorrell
  • Laura Menze
  • Amy Carpenter-Leugs
  • Naomi Wenger
  • Tom Springer
  • Brett Beasley
  • Carol Stephen
  • Deborah Lewis
  • Uche Ogbuji
  • Bill Boerman-Cornell
  • Aline Lindemann
  • Kathryn T. Jones
  • Name Withheld
  • Scott Peterson
  • Raechelle Kennedy
  • Monica Sharman
  • Jeff Gundy
  • Katie Karnehm-Esh
  • John Pierce
  • Alek Frost
  • Gail Heffner
  • Robert Andy Coombs
  • Ingrid Lochamire
  • Joy Riggs
  • A. Non
  • Denise Frame Harlan
  • Chris Bullard
  • Sylvia Keesmaat
  • Elisabeth McClanahan
  • Brother Abraham Newsom
  • Nora Kirkham
  • John Davis Jr.
  • Amy Nemecek
  • Christine Darragh
  • Randy Smit
  • Ian Randall Wilson
  • Luke Johnston
  • Lisa Witz
  • Neil E. Das
  • Peter Freedman-Doan
  • David Stewart
  • J.C. Elkin
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Lauren Wayne
  • Jeff Burt
  • Christopher Smith
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Lindsy Wallace
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Devon Balwit
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Robert Stout
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Amie Adams
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Kristina England
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
  • Debra Dieppa
  • Jerry Berrigan
  • Denise Vredevoogd
  • Kurt Armstrong
  • Amy Hetletvedt
  • Ann Klotz
  • Brandon Marlon
  • Tamra Carraher
  • Clinton Inman
  • Sophie Blanc
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
  • Matthew Deames
  • Mike Wilson
  • Lea Page
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Nina Bannett
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Michael Penny
  • Shawndra Miller
  • Jennifer Hernandez
  • Daniel Roy Connelly
  • Lorraine Caputo
  • Nate Maxson
  • Jill McDonough
  • Lynn White
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Gail Walters
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Sara Sterley
  • Rick Kempa
  • Christopher Smit
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Katie Houston
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
  • John Yohe
  • Erica Schemper
  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • Celine B. Roque
  • Gary Guthrie
  • Stefanie Möser Zitö
  • Kierstan Barbre
  • Geneva Langeland
  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • Joel Schueler
  • Gwen DiPietro
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Katie Reich
  • Hannah Thyberg
  • Catherine Woodiwiss
  • Andy Rogers
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Jacque Rowe Fields
  • Sam Gesch
  • Ched Myers
  • Amelia Rhodes
  • Kathy Fenton-Miller
  • Donald Illich
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Matt Prater
  • Thomas Swann
  • Jacob Miller
  • Travis Poling
  • Julie Keefer
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Michael Knowles
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Zach Bartz
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Mike Finley
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Stephanie Nikolopoulos
  • Ben Brazil
  • Aaron Nell
  • Nathaniel Harper-Brees
  • Griffin Paul Jackson
  • Chris Fuller
  • Samuel J. Fox
  • Joyce H. Munro
  • Nate Al Attas-Bradford
  • Erin O'Connor-Garcia
  • Cat Dixon
  • Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Ruth Asher
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Rob Testing

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