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.

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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 […]

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“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)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Childr...

College (translated from the Hindi by Arvind Krishna Mehrotra and Sara Rai)

The Lonely Ruralist

The Woman, The Place, The Poet

Influenza 1918

Achilles; On Being Thrown from a Horse at 49; & Verge

Jerry’s Dirt (essay)

The Longing of Men (fiction)

Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books...

Kaleidoscopic Consciousness

“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)

on Defacing the Monument by Susan Briante

on My Autobiography of Carson McCullers by Jenn Shapland

on Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 by John Koethe

on Children of the Land by Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

on The Prime Anniversary by Jay Wright

on Unsun by Andrew Zawacki

on Frankissstein: A Love Story by Jeanette Winterson

on Mud and Stars: Travels in Russia with Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Other Geniuses of...

Dustin Illingworth

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