Bread & Poetry

Come join us for a new season of Bread & Poetry with poet & mystic & bard Ash Ruiz. Ash, formerly of Latin-sensation band Menudo, offers spoken-word poetry, spontaneous song, and infectious, heart-led inquiry to deepen our awareness of the present moment. We will have a night of inquiry, writing, and conversation to freefall into the place where everything is music. Not to be missed, Ash’s workshops, talks and music have been featured at The United Nations, on ABC’s Good Morning America, and in large spiritual communities and performance venues throughout the world. 

“Blessed to know our eyes met in the vast immediacy of a great mystery, somehow aware of itself now. Those moments are this moment.” —Ash Ruiz, Human Beautiful

About Bread & Poetry

"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.”