Please join us for an evening with Clemens Starck.

Clemens Starck’s first book of poems, Journeyman’s Wages, received the 1996 Oregon Book Award as well as the William Stafford Memorial Poetry Award from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. His next two books — Studying Russian on Company Time (1999) and China Basin (2002) — were also finalists for the Oregon Book Award. Traveling Incognito, a letterpress chapbook from Wood Works in Seattle, appeared in 2004. Rembrandt, Chainsaw, another letterpress chapbook, was published in the fall of 2011. Old Dogs, New Tricks was published by Oblio Press in the spring of 2016. A book of collected poems Cathedrals & Parking Lots from Empty Bowl, was released in November, 2018.
Starck lives on forty-some acres in the country outside of Dallas, Oregon, in the mid-Willamette Valley.

An open mic will follow this event. Please bring your poetry to read!