Please join us for a reading by poet Matthew Zapruder on April 4, 2017 at 7 PM in the Harry Ransom Center.

Award-winning poet, editor, and translator Matthew Zapruder reads selections of his poetry and from his forthcoming book Why Poetry?, “an incisive for poetry’s accessibility to all readers.”

Author of four poetry collections, including Sun Bear (2014) and Come On All You Ghosts (2010), Zapruder is also the poetry editor for New York Times Magazine and editor-at-large for Wave Books. A reception and book signing will follow.

This event is free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. Seating is first-come, first-serve, and doors open at 6:30 P.M.

This event is co-sponsored by the New Writers Project and the Harry Ransom Center.

Please join us at 7:00 PM on Monday, January 30, 2017 in Avaya Auditorium for a reading by poet Roger Reeves.

Roger Reeves’ debut book of poems, King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His second collection, On Paradise, is forthcoming from Norton. Recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the NEA, and the Poetry Foundation, his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, he earned an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and a PhD in English at the University of Texas at Austin.

This event is free and open to the public.

Bat City Review will host a storytelling session during Austin’s 6th annual Lit Crawl, at the beautiful GrayDUCK Gallery (2213 E Cesar Chavez St.). The reading will commence at 8:30 PM on Saturday, November 5, 2016

Featuring Gayle Forman, Paige Schilt, and Chen Chen. Authors will tell stories and read material on the theme of deal breakers (that moment you had to walk away). Hosted by Bat City Review.

You can find Saturday’s amazing schedule of performances, games, trivia matches, music, and all-ages storytelling sessions here: http://www.texasbookfestival.org/lit-crawl/

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GAYLE FORMAN is a journalist and award-winning author whose many young adult novels include I Was Here, Just One Day, and If I Stay, which was also a major motion picture. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Leave Me is her first novel for adults.

PAIGE SCHILT moved to Texas with a dream of learning to sip whiskey and write serious literary essays in the shade of a wide front porch. Somewhere along the way, she came out as queer, became an activist, and fell in love with a gender-bending musician. Now she writes hilarious and heart-breaking stories about a gay, transgender, rock-n-roll family raising a son in the lone star state. Her work has appeared in The Bilerico Project, Offbeat Families, Mutha Magazine, and Brain, Child. Her memoir was published in 2015 by Transgress Press.

CHEN CHEN is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and forthcoming spring 2017 from BOA Editions, Ltd. A Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow, Chen’s work has appeared in two chapbooks as well as in publications such as Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. Chen helps edit Iron Horse and Gabby. He also works on a new journal called Underblong, which he co-founded with the poet Sam Herschel Wein. Chen received his MFA from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.