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: R.M. ENGELHARDT, THE RESURRECTION WALTZ

  • Mona Lisa In Overdrive

    Communications From Elsewhere In mind, place & soundMona Lisa in overdrive Nearer to the groundThe wave She becomes. Dream state Sacrifice Legend Model. A smile Hiding behind a gaze Lovely In any time Or place or even Upon my wall. ______________ R.M. Engelhardt 2011

  • Marlowe vs. Shakespeare: Wrongful Death and Double Identity

    holidaytoy4u: Marlowe versus Shakespeare: Wrongful Death and Double IdentityAn excerpt from the Amazon Kindle collection “Encounters with Authors”:* “Marlowe versus Shakespeare: Wrongful Death and Double Identity”- Murder, deceit, fraud, espionage – brace yourself for a cloak-and-dagger mystery unlike any… Marlowe vs. Shakespeare: Wrongful Death and Double Identity

  • IN THE KINGDOM OF NIGHT (Be Thankful)

    IN THE KINGDOM OF NIGHT (Be Thankful)

    Be thankful. For round you, Thy life there is a world Without conscience Without light. To; All thee who live And all thee who strive Strife may not as yet Have touched your bones. So Be thankful. For the lark & the light And the music of the night And its kingdom. So far from…

  • IN THE COMPANY OF RILKE …

    IN THE COMPANY OF RILKE. Rainer Maria Rilke was a giant of twentieth-century writing who is quickly becoming a visionary voice for our own time, captivating readers not only with his brilliance but also the way he boldly addresses the “deepest things.” Speaking through his own contradictions and ambivalences, he gives readers a profound understanding…

  • My whole effort for years might be described as an effort to fathom my own design, to explore my own channels, to discover my own ways… I have at last discovered my own America, I believe I have found my language, I think I know my way. And I shall wreak out my vision of…

  • The Printed Word …

  • Ministry~Revolting Cocks Chris Connelly Releases His First Book.

    About the author Chris Connelly was born in Edinburgh in 1964 and has spent most of his life writing and playing music in various guises. He has had two books published previously: the first, Confessions of the Highest Bidder, of poetry; the second, Concrete, Bulletproof, Invisible and Fried: My Life as a Revolting Cock, a memoir. He…

  • A 21st Century Dirge For America

    A TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY  DIRGE FOR AMERICA Another dead song for a dead man a dead art in no man’s land. “CENSORED” For Being REAL As they stop the world, Judge and destroy all that which they cannot make Or see.    FOR WE THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN   Anarchy Archery Douche-Beggary 38 Flavors & Fifty Stars…

  • A yank and a harley Germany 1918.

  • The Scientist & The Poet …

    EINSTEIN: There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe – the world as a unity dependent on humanity, and the world as reality independent of the human factor. TAGORE: When our universe is in harmony with man, the eternal, we know it as truth, we feel it as beauty.