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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
    • Editorial
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    • Deep Roots
      Deep Roots
    • Hope and Expectation
      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

Kathryn T. Jones

Kathryn Jones currently makes her home in Louisville, Kentucky, where she appreciates the four-season climate, a wealth of old and new parklands, and its commitment to becoming a Compassionate City. After a day of grant writing for the regional hospice provider, she spends her time caring for a husband and two rescue dogs, walking the tree-lined streets of her neighborhood, running a pet food pantry at her church, and pursuing an MFA through Spalding University’s low residency program.

Tears come
EssayDecember 12, 2016

Tears come

By Kathryn T. Jones

The tears start at the back of the eye. I suppress all thoughts of death and blink several times. They retreat. I press my…

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Sense memory
ThrowbackJanuary 14, 2016

Sense memory

By Kathryn T. Jones

Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay, Kathryn T. Jones recalls stories from her…

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Gathering clouds
EssayNovember 4, 2015

Gathering clouds

By Kathryn T. Jones

For several years, my 90-year-old mother has dreaded the approach of winter. She lives in wool sweaters, pockets stuffed with tissues. She wraps in…

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

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