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

  • Be Visionary

    The Visionary …All men should possess a ‘visionary faculty’. Men do not, because they live wrongly. They live too tensely, under too much strain, ‘getting and spending’. But this loss of the visionary faculty is not entirely man’s fault, it is partly the fault of the world he lives in, that demands that men should…

  • Why Do We Write?

    We write because the blank piece of paper and the pen are there. We write because this is our addiction and we are proud of it. Our habit, our drug, our crutch. Whatever you wish to call it. We write because since an early age we felt it deep in our souls and in our…

  • “EPITAPH” LUMMOX #3

        Epitaph for     The lost poem Which contained   Everything And nothing.   Touched everyone, anyone Who desired   The mystery of mysteries Words of words, which brought forth   Language   Both blessed & cursed us Married us, buried us and parted   The heavens and the Deep blue seas  …

  • Eclipse

        Nothing is there beyond hope Nothing that can be sworn impossible Nothing wonderful, since Zeus, Father of the Olympians Made night from mid-day Hiding the bright sunlight And sore fear came upon men. [Perhaps written having seen the eclipse of 6 Apr 648 BC.]

  • SUMMER DEEP : MARC BOLAN

    “Summer deep is in the hills again His lady is a lioness Winds of birds blow through the fields again Invaders from the true worlds” ~ Marc Bolan

  • ANDY KAUFMAN IS ?

                                Andy Kaufman is Dead Andy Kaufman is Dead Andy Kaufman is Dead Andy Kaufman is Dead Andy Kaufman is Dead   Andy Kaufman is Dead?   Andy Kaufman is Andy Kaufman is Andy Kaufman is Andy Kaufman is Andy Kaufman is…

  • Venator sequitur fugientia; capta relinquit; Semper et inventis ulteriora petit.

      The hunter follows things which flee from him; he leaves them when they are taken; and ever seeks for that which is beyond what he has found.   ~ Ovid~ Amorum (16 BC), Book II. 9. 9.