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: The New Verse Movement

  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets Published Today In 1609

    “Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixed mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken.” ~   William Shakespeare

  • O World of many worlds

    O World of many worlds, O life of lives, What centre hast thou? Where am I? O whither is it thy fierce onrush drives? Fight I, or drift; or stand; or fly? The loud machinery spins, points work in touch; Wheels whirl in systems, zone in zone. Myself having sometime moved with such, Would strike…

  • ALBANY POETRY NOSTALGIA 1999

  • TO ALL THE NEW POETS OF A YOUNG CENTURY

        So   You want to be a poet?   Then stand in line   Because just like every other damn poet That ever came before you You’ll have to write   And Twitter, Tumblr, Fumblr Whatever, will never save Your sorry ass   And the Pushcart Prize? They won’t reward you For writing…

  • Why You Should Write?

    Because all ideas and words will burn a hole in your mind unless you write them down. ~ R.M. Engelhardt  

  • Adam Zagajewski

  • she dreams in syllabus

    “You dream in syllabus, questions. And see the lines that others cannot. And you waltz across the dance floor of the world with verses and wit. For this moment Is honest, simple. But does not truly exist, or last forever”   ~ R.M. ENGELHARDT

  • POEM WRITTEN JUST AFTER THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

      No one around Not a single sound     Quiet.     Just like in the Movies where The world has just Ended, just like The calm before The storm   Or maybe just like Before a Zombie apocalypse   As I sit here alone In my apartment wondering Why I am alone perhaps…

  • Most Great Poets

    Most great poems never see the light of day. And most great poets? They pass away in the night unknown to a world that desperately needs their words.   ~ R.M.