Bread & Poetry with Julie Carr, poet, professor, publisher and podcaster

The committee of dreams/dreams as source text

As a special near-solstice dream time treat, join us as Julie leads us through an exercise in which participants will re-enter dreams (or dream new ones) to speak into a shared space. We will write from one another's dreams, from our own dreams, or from the communal dream we will be dreaming. Please wear comfortable clothes and be prepared to speak, listen, and write. 

Julie Carr is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including The Garden, book one of a trilogy titled Overflow (Essay Press and Pamenar Press 2025), Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West (University of Nebraska Press 2023) and Underscore (Omnidawn Books 2024). She teaches writing and literature at the University of Colorado at Boulder. With Tim Roberts, Carr is the co-founder of Counterpath Press, Counterpath Gallery, and Counterpath Community Garden in Denver. She hosts the podcast Return the Key: Jewish Questions for Everyone. To learn more visit www.juliecarrpoet.com.

"Poetry, like bread, is for everyone." -Roque Dalton

Bread & Poetry is for people interested in language, particularly poetry, as a doorway to something sacred inside themselves. Mixing experiential writing exercises with lively Q & A and a range of featured poets, Bread & Poetry serves up language that dissolves borders between self and Self; self and other. It is a way to hold space for a community of undefended hearts, each speaking a love language at once personal and universal. As the poet David Whyte says, “Poetry is language against which you have no defenses.”