Brian Satrom is the author of the poetry collection Starting Again, published by Finishing Line Press in 2020. His poetry has appeared in a variety of journals including Cider Press Review, The Laurel Review, Poetry Northwest, Rattle, and TAB, which nominated his work for a Pushcart Prize. After completing his MFA at the University of Maryland, he lived in Madison, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles before settling in Minneapolis.

Books by Brian Satrom:

Other poems on the web by Brian Satrom:
"Altadena"
"Corner Store"

Brian Satrom's Website.

About Starting Again:

"Brian Satrom's Starting Again captures perfectly the 'supreme importance of the nameless spectacle' that William Carlos Williams aimed for in his poems. At times, Satrom locates this 'spectacle' in a momentary evanescence such as the one in 'Out of Nowhere,' about an encounter with a bat in a grocery store. 'It's here / and gone,' he writes, and yet 'something of its presence' remains 'like the echo of a shout...' that comes 'out of nowhere and goes unanswered.' Marianne Moore believed deep 'feeling always shows itself in silence; not silence, but restraint,' and it is exactly this tension between silence and restraint that guides the marvelous and mature reticence of Satrom's wonderful Starting Again."
—Michael Collier

"Brian Satrom's poems are an invitation to start again, to see the ordinary as revelatory. Tender, wise, and beautiful, these lines draw us into a consideration of patterns, the place of identity and mystery. Satrom writes, 'and, for that matter, I'm not what I expected,' and something in me sighs with recognition and relief. We need poets like Brian Satrom, who retain the capacity for surprise. I read these poems with gratitude, impressed both with the words and the silences."
—Pamela Carter Joern

"The poems in Brian Satrom's Starting Again instruct us in the demanding business of living in the world. He says, 'I've refined the trick / of not answering right away, letting / the questioner imagine, fill in the blanks,' and these poems elicit from us the same intensified attention of which we are only occasionally capable."
—David R. Slavitt