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.

Still, the Living

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Free verse

eye in tree, but not
spring lamb half horned
shorn
lipstick, cherry jam

daubed in corner
rearview

mirror

Laurie Posner works on issues of social and economic inequity and inclusion. She attended the School of Public Affairs at Baruch College and served as a National Urban Fellow in San Antonio, Texas. Her poems can be found in the Santa Ana River Review; Rockland Lit; the museum of americana; the Squaw Valley Review; and Black Earth Institute’s 30 Days Hath September. Posner lives in Oakland, where she practices standard ballroom waltz and quickstep in the LGBTQ community, realizes dance really is a metaphor, and hopes someday to write about it.

Alive in our Hiding

because you