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 […]

Winter 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

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

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt...

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

Winter 2021

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Future Fossils (with an introduction by Taylor Bradley)

A Celebration of Life (with an interview by C. J. Bartunek)

4. selections from “The Exhibit of American Negroes” for the 1900 Paris Exposition

Psittaciformes Forms, Self-Eating Forms

Collaborations, Water and Light (with an interview by Douglas Carlson)

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

on Death Stranding, created by Hideo Kojima

on Virga by Shin Yu Pai

on Hard Like Water by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas

Global Poetics: Reactive and Relational (on Jahan Ramazani’s Poetry in a Global Age; Walt...

on In Memory of Memory by Maria Stepanova, translated by Sasha Dugdale

on Of Course by Catherine Wagner

on The Silence by Don DeLillo

Silk Poetics (on Jen Bervin’s Silk Poems and Aditi Machado’s Emporium and The End)

Winter 2021

Dustin Illingworth

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

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Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...