Stephen Ackerman’s debut poetry collection, Late Life, won the 2020 Gerald Cable Book Award and was published by Silverfish Review Press in August 2022. Information about Late Life can be found at stephenackermanpoetry.com. “While Another Dove Nude into the Breakers” is from a manuscript-in-progress, tentatively titled A Rain Oration. His poems have appeared in many print and online publications, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Best New Poets 2010, Boulevard, Harper’s Magazine, Mudfish, Partisan Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Salamander, upstreet and Verse Daily.
