Clemens “Clem” Starck is a Northwest poet. He lived in many different places and traveled the world before settling down on the Oregon Coast Range. He and his wife live in an 1890’s era renovated farmhouse surrounded by 40 acres of land. Starck was fifty-six when his first book of poems was published after more than thirty-six years of writing poetry. Throughout his life, Starck had many different jobs. He was a waiter, handyman, merchant seaman, and carpenter. Consequently, all these diverse experiences influenced his poetry.
