Book Launch and Nature Writing Workshop: Diana Radovan

Book Launch and Nature Writing Workshop
Seasons of Change - Wild Poems by Diana Radovan
Official Release Date: July 25th
Publisher: Outpost Press, Wayfarer Books
Lost WE, Wednesday, August 20th, 7 to 9 pm

What the night will look like:
Introducing the author and the collection
Diana Radovan - Intro and Reading
Nature Writing Workshop

• -Engaging the Senses - Guided Virtual Forest Bathing Walk
• -Using Contrast and Sharp Turns in Poetry
• -Exhausting the Metaphor

Break, including book sales and book signing
Diana Radovan & all - Outro and Reading

• -Open Mic based on the Writing Exercises
• -Final reading from Seasons of Change

Closing, including book sales and book signing

Book blurbs
Seasons of Change is a poetry collection that traces human experiences, mapping them onto the rhythms of the natural world. In an era of climate change, the need for a more interconnected way of living has never been more urgent. This collection invites us to rekindle our bond with nature, remembering our place within it rather than our separation from it. It encourages us to slow down, attune to our senses, and align our lives with the restorative cycles of Mother Earth. A tender call and a quiet invitation, this book urges us to spiral back – beyond language, beyond time – to our very essence.

“Diana Radovan’s poems show us how the exile from history and belonging meets her own new genetics and anatomy in forest, cave, mountain, and every edge of the natural world. This poetry gives voice and image to a vision in which we are creation and creators. Woven
out of deep loss and a corresponding capacity for intimacy, her poetics earns a truth for readers: “It could be morning, there could be light.” from Dreams of Fog.”
Brigid Yuknavitch, Corporeal Writing Staff

“Diana Radovan’s words are not afraid to dissect, to bring out trapped words of the body, of the nervous system, and the layered, emotional experiences of womanhood. Diana leans into rewilding her language as the poetry of her soul pushes boundaries, extends touch, and
loves fiercely.”

Sarah Joy Thompson, Filipina-American poet and author of Uprooted Orchid (FlowerSong Press, 2025)

“Living in the seam between languages and topographies, Diana Radovan's poems sing and summon, whistling like wind over an open notebook, gazing at the ravine below. The lyric presence of nature calls us into the spaces that shape us and recreate us. As with the ancient shepherding trails of transhumance that can be found on every continent, the reader is reconnected to a type of pastoralism or nomadism, a seasonal movement of livestock between fixed summer and winter pastures, that imagines a self without weaponized borders and walls. At a time when so many words seek to alienate us further from the vulnerable
natural world, Radovan's poems refigure marvel and sublimity. They hold us in wonder andpossibility, and perhaps greatest of all, in breath-taking hope.”
Alina Stefanescu, author of My Heresies (Sarabande Books, 2025)

“These are poems of singular imagination, experimentation, and discipline. Radovan consistently wows with sharp turns, wild jumps and brilliant epiphanies. Her unique voice is like a vision of ancient waterfalls, full of inner wisdom.”
Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American (The University of Chicago Press, 2024) and The Parachutist (Sundress Publications, 2025)