Clemens Starck, a 1998 Witter Bynner Fellow at Willamette University, received both the Wiliam Stafford Memorial Poetry Award and the Oregon Book Award in Poetry for his collection, Journeyman's Wages (Story Line Press, 1995). For thirty-five years, Starck has earned his living as a journeyman carpenter.

Books by Clemens Starck:

Other poems on the web by Clemens Starck:
Four poems
"Slab on Grade"

Clemens Starck's Website.