“Green Couch”, “In Quarantine”, “The Old House”, and “The New House” by Anthony Immergluck appeared in Issue 29 and can be read here.
We’d love to hear more about this set of poetry.
This sequence of poems is part of a chapbook manuscript, “Cohabitations,” which explores the various ways in which people share (or don’t share) space with one another.
I originally thought up this project in 2015, when the world and my life were very different. Back then, I had no idea how deeply urgent and complex the idea of “sharing space” could be. The poems only started coming together in 2020, when I, like everyone else, had to confront my relationship to my loved ones and my community in ways I didn’t see coming.
Recommend a book for us which was published within the last decade.
“Calling a Wolf a Wolf” by Kaveh Ackbar
If you could have a drink with any living author, who would it be? Why?
I’ll say Ilya Kaminsky. I’m a huge fan and there’s so much I’d love to ask him.
What are you working on now? What’s next?
Our thanks to Anthony for taking the time to answer a few questions and share his work. Read Anthony’s poems, “Green Couch”, “In Quarantine”, “The Old House”, and “The New House” , here: https://www.sequestrum.org/four-poems-by-anthony-immergluck.
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Anthony Immergluck is a poet, publishing professional, and musician with an MFA in Poetry from New York University – Paris. Some of his recent work has been published in TriQuarterly, Beloit Poetry Review, Tahoma Literary Review, Narrative, and Nimrod. Originally from Chicago, he now lives in Madison, Wisconsin. More of his work can be found at anthonyimmergluck.com.