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  • Essay
    • The violence of frenzy
      The violence of frenzy
    • The sound of roots
      The sound of roots
    • Summer’s lease
      Summer’s lease
    • Editorial
    • Throwback
  • Poetry
  • 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

Elisabeth McClanahan

Elisabeth McClanahan is a recent alumnus of the Trinity Fellows Academy. She lives in Washington, D.C., working for an Anglican church and a literary nonprofit. In the between times, she frequents her local library and explores the endless uses of the Foreman grill.

Borrowed roots
EssayJuly 26, 2017

Borrowed roots

By Elisabeth McClanahan

The trees in my neighborhood are squeezed into small dirt rectangles between brick sidewalks and asphalt roads. Their branches get routinely hacked off, and…

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Jagged edges
EssayJuly 13, 2016

Jagged edges

By Elisabeth McClanahan

Jordan’s One Direction posters covered the wall where Emily used to hang her princess canopy, but the sunset still glimmered through the windows facing…

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

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