R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

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R.M. Engelhardt is an American poet, writer and author who over the last three decades has published over 20 books of poetry including “Nod” “Alchemy” DarkLands, RAW & “The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt. The founder of the Upstate NY organization ALBANY POETS & the Annual Poetry Celebration THE ALBANY WORD FEST he has through his ideas & visions helped to contribute a large amount of advocacy and creativity to the Spoken Word~Poetry Capital District scene and is the former host of the long running readings The School of Night & Vox. He is currently the host of SPEAK THE WORD ALBANY!. An Open Mic for Poetry And The Spoken Word at Ophelias. Over the last thirty years his work has also been published in many journals such as The Rye Whiskey Review, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, Black Noise, The Hobo Camp Review, Full of Crow, on the Outlaw Poetry Network & in many many others. Look for his books “WHERE THE PEOPLE’S VISION PERISHES 2020” “DARK LANDS (2019 on LuLu, Amazon & At Barnes and Noble) The Resurrection Waltz, 2012 ( Infinity Press) & “COFFEE ASS BLUES & OTHER POEMS” ( 2018 Alien Buddha Press 2018) ” DarkLands” 2019 & “Where There Is No Vision” 2020, “WE RISE LIKE SMOKE” (2021) & Of Spirit, Ash & Bone (2022) and RAW- Poems ( 2023) all available on Amazon.com He is also the Editor of the small independent poetry press Dead Man’s Press Ink since 1998. Look for his books The Bones of Our Existence A Journal 2046 & his new books THE DYING TIME POEMS BY R.M. Engelhardt 2026 & NO KINGS 2025 available at Barnes & Noble and currently on Amazon. www.gentlemanoutsider.com *All Poems, Writings & Information Contained On This Blog Are The Property & Owned By The Author R.M. Engelhardt. © 2026 www.rmengelhardt.com

Category: Books by R.M. Engelhardt

  • SAINT POEM BY R.M. ENGELHARDT

      In the time of the world’s night, the poet utters the holy ~ Heidegger Broken. Like the words or like the song Or like the man or like the poem His muse, his wife, his dog And if it ain’t gonna walk It begs It crawls And will eventually die Alone. Solitary-slow, old &…

  • ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION

      The time for poets Has passed. The time for words Is gone I have decided. Soul & mind As all the machines Take over As heart & guts are Fucked over by Commercials, jingles Liars, assholes & Trite hallmark cards That’s it I give up I’m finished I’m done I lost the fight And…

  • THIS SONG WHICH NEVER ENDS

      Such words, poetry rare Exulting reality Into voice           Expression Into being Being       into form. From out of ashes Out of seasons Years time and reason And from out of every man Woman born Conceived. All truths   shadows   And all loves Destructions and voices Perceived Complete and thus returning Like Angels Like Gods Again to tell…

  • “THE RESURRECTION WALTZ” NOW AVAILABLE ON KINDLE

  • Love In The Mid-West

    In this dream. You are a painting by Thomas Hart Benton with luxurious black hair and beautiful pale white skin Asleep. An old hillbilly a mid-west aging Pluto attempts to touch you, looks at you from around the corner in awe and sublime wonder and its obvious and plain to see that he is complete…

  • CAST

    From the wreckage And the great unknown Come I, Cast back unto it Again   From beneath, the mire of All good works Which once wrought heaven, You, closer to thyself And…thy sight.   The poet Now lost Without words Cast in shadows From the edge of stars “Silence.”   __________________   ~ R.M. Engelhardt,…

  • DUST

      I have long since disappeared from these places. Time speaks and all I have left is gone where meaningless gestures from strangers in a foreign land signify nothing, the circle once more revolving and unfolding the mysteries of sleep. And everything, macrocosm and microcosm, has merely become a dream. Dead sonnets and broken memories.…

  • THE DAY GOD BECAME POPULAR

                  We were hanging out drinking a few shots with that asshole Mephistopheles. He (as usual) was trying to boug a few drinks, and (as usual) we..ignored him. At work as usual it was one long fucking day. I was stuck putting up the sequoia’s and disagreed; God liked…

  • Support Independent Publishing (And Poetry!)   Get your Copy Now …   Biography Poet- Writer R.M. Engelhardt’s work over the years has been published and has R.M. Engelhardt’s work has appeared in many journals & magazines in both print and on the net including in Retort, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich,…

  • Book Recommendations …

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