The Poetry Distillery is The Poetry Barn’s literary journal. Established in 2018, we harvest a diverse sampling of some the most exciting poems generated in our community, working closely with our authors to distill their poems to perfection as an extension of the workshop process.

poem for the statue facing away from a window

how dreary to only sense that
there is a window behind you and
never to know 

to feel the murmer and mumble of a
breeze the whisper of light on your back 

to wait and wait for someone
to turn you around and say 

here 

this is what you have been missing 


Nomi Kliger


HOLLOW-BONED

The Moon in January