R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

recent posts

about

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: Poetry

  • Get THE RESURRECTION WALTZ

    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,…

  • Hell, A Prose Poem by Peter Johnson

      HELL   “If you want to understand the social and political history of modern man, study hell.” ~ Thomas Merton It’s probably like the excitement of your first cigarette, but it lasts forever, that dizzying nausea — the Unknown: with imitation human heads on their buttocks, bats leaping from black books, dragon tails waving,…

  • Books

    Books measure time in both moments and years. We all grow old but the stories never will. ~ R.M. Engelhardt

  • Robert Mitchum was a poet? The poems of Robert Mitchum

                          Cabo San Lucas Rising early to beat the heat a little dry from last nights booze. We’re soon out miles from land where the big fish roam under the sun and stars, undisturbed by time’s wave-measured march. Slicing bonito for bait, the blood is…

  • Don’t Be A Writer …

                        “Don’t be a ‘writer’. Be writing.” ~William Faulkner

  • DEAR LIFE

                              Dear Life   Upon all the souls Of all these poor saintly creatures & upon these very Saintly apparitions of these very very Saintly words of the very very dead gods you Ask me to be a poet of this age and…

  • What a joy it must be to be a truly great writer, even if it means a shotgun at the finish. ~ Buk

  • Surrealism & Automatic Writing: The politics of destroying language

    By DJ Pangburn 185 days ago Back in the 1930s, a French psychoanalyst and philosopher by the name of Jacques Lacan began his life’s work—an attempt to create the framework by which the human psyche could be analyzed within modern civilization. Such was his influence that Lacanian thought not only left a mark on the field of…

  • HAPPY BIRTHDAY, RIP UNCLE WALT

    WALT WHITMAN IS DEAD  R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ. ·   WALT WHITMAN IS DEAD Where are you now? Uncle? Poet? Walt? Old man, child of the Long Island Free verse son of America, Teacher & government work-man? “Human – Being” Citizen Man… Mind of the spirit Spirit, in the flesh Where have you gone? Disappeared…

  • Death Is a Beautiful Car Parked Only By Richard Brautigan

    Death is a beautiful car parked only to be stolen on a street lined with trees whose branches are like the intestines of an emerald. You hotwire death, get in, and drive away like a flag made from a thousand burning funeral parlors. You have stolen death because you’re bored. There’s nothing good playing at…