A new full-length poetry collection by Gina Williams
“Williams channels the hardships of existence through a lightning voice of empathy and illumination—pure and crisp and sure of its subjects. The rough love of family, the fleeting nature of memory, the winding road of illness, the harsh screams of war, the sorrow of lost connection, and the ever-eroding hope for a better world. An Unwavering Horizon swells with compassion, pulses with lovely imagery, and fights to make sense of all that we’ll never know.”
–Jonathan Starke, founding editor of Palooka and author of You’ve Got Something Coming
Writer/Editor/Artist
Gina Williams
Gina Williams is a journalist, photographer, former firefighter, and gardener. She’s a Pacific Northwest native and can often be found rambling in the Oregon Outback, volunteering at the community garden, or on assignment in a far-flung location. She lives and creates near Portland, Oregon. Williams is a Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and founder of Plein Air Poetry Northwest, a nonprofit organization supporting literary arts and environmental activism. Her writing and visual art have been featured most recently by River Teeth, Okey-Panky, Carve, The Sun, Fugue, Palooka, Boiler Journal, Whidbey Art Gallery, Black Box Gallery, and Great Weather for Media, among others. Her full-length poetry collection, “An Unwavering Horizon” published by Finishing Line Press, is now available for pre-order and will be distributed in May 2020.
The tone overall varies from sweet and sad to undeniably solemn, but it would be wrong to say that this is a depressing collection. While it does feature illness and loss very prominently, it usually brings something uplifting even from tragic circumstances.