Dustin Illingworth

Dustin Illingworth is a critic and fiction writer based in Southern California. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Times Literary Supplement, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly, Literary Hub, and various other publications. He is the managing editor of the Scofield, and a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine.

Reviews

on Testimony: The United States (1885–1915): Recitative by Charles Reznikoff

Some forty years after Charles Reznikoff first banded together with the New York poets Louis Zukofsky and George Oppen beneath the rubric of Objectivism, he was asked what that term meant to him. His response, for the reference work Contemporary Poets, tells us a great deal about the poetic intentions of that small, stylistically disparate […]

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Across the Rock

Writing the Immigrant Southern in the New New South

The Citizenship Question, or, The Actors of Dearborn

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

The Gay Horizon

“Be Unpredictable, Be Real, Be Interesting, Tell a Good Story!” (with an interview...

A Lower Deep

“What I Find Funny Is Too Dark to Say Out Loud” (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

“A Starting Point” (with an introduction by Katie Geha)

“As Complicated and Elusive as Reality”: María Berrio’s Many-Layered Collages (wit...

Conjuring the Past: Cy Gavin’s Bermuda Paintings

on Census by Jesse Ball

on Loves You by Sarah Gambito

on Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays by Leslie Jamison

on In the Lateness of the World by Carolyn Forché

Etymology, Ecology, and Ecopoetics

“What Else Might Be Available”: Three Contemporary Lineages of the Poetry Pro...

Post-Metamorphic: The Poetry of Modern Motherhood

on Monsters I Have Been by Kenji C. Liu

Dustin Illingworth

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