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 |
Sample Topics. Often there are paintings, video clips, and audio files that support the weekly theme.
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