Stephen Ackerman‘s debut poetry collection, Late Life, won the 2020 Gerald Cable Book Award and was published by Silverfish Review Press in 2022. More information about Late Life can be found at stephenackermanpoetry.com. His manuscript-in-progress, A Rain Oration, includes three poems originally published in Plume (“Happiness on Earth”; “I Was Reading the Sunlight, I Was Planting the Words on this Page”; and “While Another Dove Nude into the Breakers”). His poem “If I Had as Many Hands as Vishnu” was set to music by Max Raimi, a composer and violist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The piece is scheduled to be performed in March 2025 as part of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Chamber Music Series. His poems have appeared in many print and online publications, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets 2010, Boulevard, Harper’s Magazine, The Manhattan Review, Mudfish, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Salamander and Verse Daily.
