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Topology Magazine - Artful dispatches from the places where we find ourselves Artful dispatches from the places where we find ourselves
  • 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
    • Hope and Expectation
      Hope and Expectation
    • No Trespassing
      No Trespassing
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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

Luke Johnston

Since graduating with a humanities degree from Cornerstone University, Luke continues to pursue writing in his free time. He self-describes as the product of pseudo-rural life, yet living in his hometown of Hudsonville, Michigan (aka "Michigan’s Salad Bowl"). It's the sweet smell of spreading manure every spring in the muck fields - which are strangely adjacent to this this suburbia - that tunes him to the beauty of the urban/rural exchange happening in the greater Grand Rapids area. You'll find him in one of two places: in his garden or out fishing.

Skamani Season
PoetryApril 5, 2017

Skamani Season

By Luke Johnston

sand pipers pluck the eyes of junk shad twitching in mesh nets strewn over the quay as big blue men string poles along the…

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Blueberry Bruce
PoetryJune 7, 2016

Blueberry Bruce

By Luke Johnston

Planted a sandy pile far back past the swing-set in full sun over top that dead dog buried there. And as worms ribbon 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 …

Contributors

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  • Deborah Haak
  • Henry Bakker
  • Elisabeth Wenger
  • Rob Vander Giessen-Reitsma
  • S. Alexandra Harper
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  • 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
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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
  • 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
  • Kendra Stanton Lee
  • Julie Keefer
  • Rick Kempa
  • Christopher Smit
  • Lynne S. Viti
  • Sara Sterley
  • Larry Kamphausen
  • Amanda Hiland
  • Devon Balwit
  • Travis Poling
  • Jeff Santosuosso
  • Jacob Miller
  • Valerie Bacharach
  • Jennifer Crow
  • Thomas Swann
  • Gail Walters
  • Robert Peace Jordan
  • D.S. Leiter
  • Paul Douglas McNeill II
  • Matt Prater
  • Lee Hull Moses
  • Daniel Silliman
  • Christie Walkuski
  • Deborah Bowen
  • Amy Oestreicher
  • Lynn White
  • Laura Fabrycky
  • Carolyn Adams
  • Jill McDonough
  • Rachel Marie Stone
  • Donald Illich
  • Lindsy Wallace
  • Amelia Rhodes
  • Heather Hutchison
  • Kathy Fenton-Miller
  • Nate Maxson
  • Ched Myers
  • Larry-Michael Hackenberg
  • Jacque Rowe Fields
  • Lorraine Caputo
  • Daniel Roy Connelly
  • Sam Gesch
  • Jeff Burt
  • Catherine Woodiwiss
  • Christopher Smith
  • Eileen R. Kinch
  • Lauren Wayne
  • Jennifer Hernandez
  • Hannah Thyberg
  • Shawndra Miller
  • Andy Rogers
  • Katie Reich
  • June Mears Driedger
  • Michael Penny
  • Kenneth Arthur
  • Jennifer Martelli
  • Nicole Carlin
  • Nathan Van Hoff
  • Danielle Germaine
  • Alexa Shearer
  • Nina Bannett
  • Claire Ibarra
  • Lea Page
  • Heidi Fettig Parton
  • Marylu Dykstra
  • Mary Ann Honaker
  • Gwen DiPietro
  • Joel Schueler
  • Mike Wilson
  • Ruth Asher
  • Matthew Deames
  • Wm. Anthony Connolly
  • Elisavietta Ritchie
  • Cat Dixon
  • Sophie Blanc
  • Geneva Langeland
  • Erin O'Connor-Garcia
  • Joy-Elizabeth Lawrence
  • Stefanie Möser Zitö
  • Clinton Inman
  • Kierstan Barbre
  • Nate Al Attas-Bradford
  • Tamra Carraher
  • Ann Klotz
  • Joyce H. Munro
  • Gary Guthrie
  • Brandon Marlon
  • Samuel J. Fox
  • Amy Hetletvedt
  • Chris Fuller
  • Kurt Armstrong
  • Celine B. Roque
  • Griffin Paul Jackson
  • Denise Vredevoogd
  • John Yohe
  • Erica Schemper
  • Jerry Berrigan
  • Nathaniel Harper-Brees
  • Vincent A. Cellucci
  • Mark Andrew Heathcote
  • Stephanie Nikolopoulos
  • Kate Bowman-Johnston
  • Debra Dieppa
  • Aaron Nell
  • Ben Brazil
  • Kendall Vanderslice
  • Hardeep Sabharwal
  • Katie Rendon Kahn
  • Mike Finley
  • Karen Fitz La Barge
  • Kristina England
  • Amanda Cleary Eastep
  • Grant Elgersma
  • Emily Ulmer
  • Jim Schmotzer
  • Zach Bartz
  • L. L. Barkat
  • Josh MacIvor-Andersen
  • Katie Houston
  • Jennifer Monroe
  • Jeremy Huggins
  • Amie Adams
  • Barbara Ruth
  • Matthew Landrum
  • Jacqueline Ristola
  • Rebecca Wolff
  • Alan Van Wyk
  • Robert Stout
  • Jeffrey Allen Mays
  • Michael Knowles
  • Rob Testing

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