BAT City Review

BAT CITY REVIEW is an annual literary journal run by graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bat City publishes only the best in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and visual art.

Contributors include Tomaž Šalamun, Dara Wier, James Tate, Patricia Lockwood, Noelle Kocot, Zachary Schomburg, Matthew Zapruder, Mary Jo Bang, Maurice Manning, Colm Tóibín, Stephen Dunn, Dean Young, Aimee Bender, George Saunders, H.L. Hix, Dorianne Laux, Terrance Hayes, Ron Savage, Denise Duhamel, Marilyn Hacker, Ben Lerner, C.K. Williams, Thylias Moss, Craig Arnold, G.C. Waldrep, Shane McCrae, James Gendron, Donald Revell, Terese Svoboda, Khaled Mattawa, Tracy K. Smith, and Anthony Doerr.

We were the first American literary journal to publish poems by Mahmoud Darwish, and our access to materials at the Harry Ransom Center has allowed us to showcase archival photographs of Anne Sexton and drawings by Gerard Manley Hopkins, D.H. Lawrence, and e.e. cummings. Other special features include interviews, commissioned ekphrastic poems, and author portfolios.