EssayAugust 7, 2017<July 31, 2017 A home with roots by Stephanie Nikolopoulos Editor’s Note: We at Topology are currently on our annual publishing break. In the meantime, enjoy this bonus essay on the July theme of…
ThrowbackJuly 6, 2017<July 5, 2017 Planting patience by Amelia Rhodes Editor’s note: Each Thursday, we feature a throwback piece from Topology’s predecessor, catapult magazine. In this essay from 2012, Amelia Rhodes plants seeds with her…
EssayMarch 29, 2017<March 27, 2017 Pennsylvania round in four parts by Marjorie Maddox Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from the collection of short stories What She Was Saying by Marjorie Maddox (Fomite, 2017). I. Before…
EditorialMay 2, 2016<May 1, 2016 What we need by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma The morning air is cold, and birds chatter as they warm up in light that filters into the garden from the east. Though I…
EssayOctober 21, 2015<October 15, 2015 A river gone wild in the city by Tom Springer e live in two worlds, writes Minnesota poet Tom Hennen. The first includes “airplanes and power plants, all the machinery that surrounds us, the…
PoetrySeptember 27, 2015<February 15, 2016 Time’s Trash Gyre by Elisabeth Wenger Work the land long enough, and you become aware of the kelp-like waves of crops advancing and retreating across the face of the earth….