Simone Muench

Jet Fuel Review’s 31st Issue is now available! Please enjoy our spring 2026 semester’s selection of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction and art at /issue-31-spring-2026.html Thank you to our cover and banner artist Catherine-Esther Cowie! Huge shoutout to our contributors and editorial team for all their hard work: Katharine Svehla, Jimena Araiza, Jada Law, Chloe Torres, Kate Goranson, Nicole Kaminski, Mukhabbat Fayzullaeva, Brianna Januska, Joshua Brown, Delilah Rivera, Ragan Hrycyk, Matthew Czaja, Juno Tyne, Dean Shamah, Katie Melzer, Katelyn Perritano, Meda Brazas, Do Dingshoff, Patricia Damocles, Stephanie Karas, Dr. Rebecca Morgan Frank, Dr. Jackie K. White, and Dr. Simone Muench!

Coming in May!

Another wonderful evening of Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose & Cocktails readings featuring Hypertext Magazine & Studio founder Christine Maul Rice and contributors Natasha Mijares, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, and Eileen Favorite! Join Kenyatta Rogers and me at Hungry Brain on the 3rd Sunday of every month!

Join @supportyourlocalvibedealer at and me at @hungrybrainchicago for our April reading, which is in collaboration with @rice_christine 's Hypertext!

Michelle Alexander, Preeti Vangani, and Erica Stern were fantastic readers at Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose & Cocktails this past Sunday! Many thanks to them for reading, and many congratulations on their latest books! Please join Kenyatta Rogers and me in April for a Hypertext Magazine & Studio collaboration featuring Christine Maul Rice, Natasha Mijares, Eileen Favorite, and Sandra Jackson-Opoku!

Poets for Chicago: A Night of Art & Community Benefiting ICIRR 🗓 Friday, April 3 | 7:00pm 📍 Haymarket House, 800 W. Buena Ave., Chicago Join us for our second reading installment where all proceeds support the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights. This night will feature: 🎤 José Olivarez 🎤 Mayda del Valle 🎤 C. Russell Price 🎤 Juan Martinez 🎤 The Borderless Poets Lit for Chicago is a coalition of Chicago literary organizers & curators, including: Sunday Reading Series, An Inconvenient Hour, PO Box Collective, Neon Night Mic, Red Rover, & Exhibit B Spread the word. Support our city. See you there.

Please join Kenyatta Rogers and me for the Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose & Cocktails at Hungry Brain to see Preeti Vangani, Michelle Alexander, and Erica Stern!

February's line-up: @davidbaker329 , Julie Iromuanya, & @jenssread

Please join us TONIGHT (Sunday, 18th) to hear Mary Ardery, Donna Vorreyer, and Snežana Zabić! Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose, & Cocktails is held on the third Sunday at 6:30 pm (doors open at 6:30 and readings begin at 7:00).

Thanks to everyone who came out and supported our "Poets for Chicago" fundraiser for the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights! We had more than 100 people attend. It was wonderful to see so many familiar, and new, faces. Shoutouts go to Jeff Wolf for initiating the event and a whole host of others who helped make it happen including Benjamin Niespodziany, Kenyatta Rogers, James Stewart, Mary Cerney, Ian Wojcikiewicz, Justin Rosier, Alex Shapiro, Michael Dean, S. Yarberry, and everyone at Exhibit B who wasn't named! A special shoutout to my bestie, Kim Ambriz, for coming straight from work to serve drinks with me for the evening. And, of course, a huge shoutout to one of the best poetry line-ups of the year: Mark Turcotte, Brenda Cardenas, Daisy Hernandez, Stefania Gomez, Natasha Mijares, Daniel Borzutzky, Tara Betts, Robyn Schiff, and Erika L. Sánchez. Thanks to Mike Reed for donating wine, to Melissa Grubbs at Reckless Records for donating book bags, and to the many presses and journals who donated books including Wave Books, Deep Vellum, Sarabande, Copper Canyon Press, Coffee House Press, Haymarket Books, Black Ocean, The Year, Chicago Quarterly Review, Rhino Poetry, Chicago Review, Rose Metal Press, Veliz Books, Match Factory editions, and Acre Books. And, of course, thanks to Co-Prosperity for hosting!!! If you weren't able to make it last night, but would still like to donate, please visit /

Thursday! Kim Ambriz and I will be bartending :) Click link to donate and for more details: /event-details/poets-for-chicago-a-night-of-art-community-benefiting-icirr-1 From Exhibit B: 📣 LINEUP ANNOUNCEMENT 📣 Poets for Chicago: A Night of Art & Community Benefiting ICIRR 🗓 Thursday, December 11 | 7 PM 📍 Co-Prosperity, 3219 S Morgan St, Chicago Join us for a powerful night of words in support of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (ICIRR). Featuring performances from some of Chicago’s most vital voices: ✨ Erika L. Sánchez ✨ Mark Turcotte ✨ Daniel Borzutzky ✨ Tara Betts ✨ Robyn Schiff ✨ Natasha Mijares ✨ Brenda Cárdenas ✨ Stefania Gómez ✨ Daisy Hernández A night of poetry, solidarity, and collective action — all proceeds go to ICIRR. Poets for Chicago is presented by a coalition of local literary curators and organizations, including Jeffrey Wolf (An Inconvenient Hour), Simone Muench and Kenyatta Rogers (Sunday Reading Series), S. Yarberry (PO Box Collective), Ben Niespodziany (Neon Night Open Mic), and the artist collective Exhibit B. Spread the word. Bring your people. Stand for our city.

Photos from November's fabulous Sunday Reading Series: Poetry, Prose & Cocktails reading with Richie Hofmann, Cate Lycurgus, and Danny Khalastchi! Shout out to my co-host Kenyatta Rogers and the JFR editors who attended and helped celebrate Jimena Araiza's birthday!