Meet the Author with Steven L. Ablon, MD

Tuesday, October 20, 2026
7:30 - 9:00 PM (ET) on ZOOM
MEET THE AUTHOR with Steven L. Ablon, MD

Dr. Ablon will present his new book of poems The Auger.  The program will be moderated by Dan Jacobs, MD, and the audience will have a chance to ask questions during the  Q&A session at the end.

To be a grandparent, a father, a son is to live inside the full circle of time. Each role carries memory forward, each moment carries love, and each loss deepens what remains.

In this new collection, Steven Ablon writes of family—its tenderness and its trials, its sweetness and its sorrow. These poems trace the passage of time: the joy of holding a grandchild, the ache of remembering parents now gone, the shifting roles that remind us of our place in the generations.

With clarity and grace, Ablon captures the intimacy of ordinary moments—meals, conversations, embraces—and sets them against the vastness of memory. His language makes us pause, helping us see how fragile, fleeting, and radiant life can be.

These poems are a meditation on what binds us to one another, and on how love endures, even as time changes everything.

Steven Luria Ablon, MD, poet and adult and child psychoanalyst, teaches child psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and publishes widely in academic journals. He won the Academy of American Poets' Prize 1961 and the National Library of Poetry, Editor’s Choice Award 1994. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines. His collections of poetry are Tornado Weather (Mellen Poetry Press, Lewiston, New York, 1993), Flying Over Tasmania (The Fithian Press, Santa Barbara, California, 1997). Blue Damsels (Peter E. Randall Publisher, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2005), Night Call, Plain View Press, Austin, Texas, 2011), and Dinner in the Garden (Create Space, Columbia, South Carolina, 2018).