Klindt’s Booksellers is excited to welcome Oregon Book Award winner Clemens Starck for a reading and book signing to celebrate his newest release, “Cathedrals and Parking Lots,” 5 p.m. Friday, May 3.

Clem Starck is a Princeton drop-out, former merchant seaman, retired union carpenter and construction foreman. His poetry celebrates daily living in clear, beautiful language. Publisher’s Weekly wrote, “Probing work and family life, Starck displays a deep respect for mundane and, seemingly, randomly chosen, subjects: work boots, archery, a car engine, cutting grass.” Dana Jennings, of the New York Times Art Beat, wrote Starck is “an essential plainspoken poet of work.”