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: On Writing

  • P U R P O S E

        Among saints & sinners, Good & evil God & Satan Nothing matters. Among books filled with Words, conformed and Pressed into a small child’s Mind   Nothing matters. Among the shadows, Self-esteem cut down by Authority and the egos of Those who have murdered and Buried their dreams Nothing matters. Among the opinions…

  • The Universe

  •     Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry  ~ Kerouac  

  • October …

        All things on earth point home in old October: sailors to sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. For have not all these things been here before, have we not seen them, heard them,…

  • A MARCH SNOW

            A March snow Has fallen   Small children Create angels On earth     They smile.     __________           R.M. ENGELHARDT  

  • Be Not …

    “Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.” ~  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  •   I know it is a good poem when I cut my self shaving.” ~ W.H. Auden

  • Some People

        Some people.   Some people, will lie Some people, will cheat.   Play dead Play the martyr Destroy all others   Regardless…of the outcome.   Never taking the blame Never taking the fall, And never feeling the pain   Of all others.   And someone once told me;   “That honest people don’t…