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Grant Elgersma

Grant Elgersma lives in Honolulu, HI. He teaches online courses in American Popular Music for the University of Idaho, gives segway tours in Waikiki, and is learning about tropical varieties of fruits and vegetables in his community garden.

Treasure in the trash
ThrowbackNovember 10, 2016

Treasure in the trash

By Grant Elgersma

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2002, Grant Elgersma gives a review…

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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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