Here are 99 topics that you 
can choose from for a class of 7 weeks.

 *Below the list you can open some pages that show how content is offered for a topic.

  
Addictions 
Angel At The Gap/ The Grief Of Suicide 
Ars Poetica- Poems on the art of Writing Poetry 
Bees 
Bells 
Boats 
Body Image—Teenagers & Self Consciousness 
Celebrations 
Chagall (Marc Chagall’s art of displacement) 
Character Growth through the 12 steps/Principles of Thistle Farms 
Cities 
Colors- Red and Pink 
Creative Family- Wyeth /Creative Catalysts 
Creativity and Art Of Children (Ish) 
David- King David and Paradox 
Desire (poet Vera Pavlova) 
Divorce and Heartbreak Poems 
Doors 
Eckphrastic And Object Poems 
Eden 
Faces 
Falling Upward 
Fame/ Peak Experiences 
Fear 
Feet And Shoes 
Fidelity in the writings of Wendell Berry 
Fire And Ice 
Fragmentation/ Union 
Friendship 
Garden-Seed Poems 
Goodness 
Gratitude 
Gregory Orr and his poems about Belovedness 
Grief and Loss Poems 
Haiku /6 Words 
Hand And Fist 
Heaven- Emily Dickinson 
Icarus 
Ice-Wine 
Image Of God That We Hold 
Imperfect & Perfect 
Inner Critic– The Voices we Hear 
Inside Out 2— Poems about the Group of Emotions in the Movie 
Irish Laughter and Tears 
Journal Keeper/ Journal Writing 
Kids Look At Adults 
Kilby 12 Ways to stay Sane 
Kitchen Table 
Lent/Easter 
Letter Writing/ Epistolary Poems 
Letters Home 
Light-3 Artists and Poets that Discuss Light 
Lightning 
List Poems 
Listening w/Compassion/Dr. Remen 
Love And Hope 
Magnified Seeing/Attention to Thresholds/Liminal Space 
Marriage 
Money, Gambling And Luck 
Mrs. Greenleaf/ Flannery O’conner 
Music 
Narcissus 
Numbers/ Story Of One And Many 
Omissions 
Paradox 
Places to Return – the ache of a setting for a childhood 
Play. (Gina Bria) 
Poetic Forms 
Polish and Russian Poetry 
Prayer 
Prodigal Son 
Quotidian- Mundane Routines have Their Importance for Us 
Rites of Passage 
Saints And Icons 
Saying “Yes” to Invitations 
Scars 
Seasons 
Shock and Trauma 
Slavery and Emancipation Poems (Poems of Langston Hughes) 
Sleep and Insomnia 
Small Things Are Mighty and Vast 
Suffering 
Surrender 
Survival – a look at the Strength of Birds 
Taste/ The Emotion Of Taste 
Technology/ Woes And Joys 
The Art Of Terezim— One Art Teacher of Children in Captivity 
The Psalms of David (Lucille Clifton) and How to Paraphrase 
The Envoy Line 
Thin Places/Liminal Spaces for Gathering Attention 
Time 
Tired Moms 
True Self/ False Self 
Wilbur, O’Tuama, V. Miller and Hopkins — 3 Poets writing about Belief 
Windows 
Work 
Writing A Short Story With Predicaments 
Writing to be Believable  (Good Writing includes the Sense of Smell) 
Yellow And Green

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