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

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  • CAST

    From the wreckage And the great unknown Come I, Cast back unto it Again   From beneath, the mire of All good works Which once wrought heaven, You, closer to thyself And…thy sight.   The poet Now lost Without words Cast in shadows From the edge of stars “Silence.”   __________________   ~ R.M. Engelhardt,…

  • Poetry is the kind of thing poets write. ~Robert Frost Man, if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.   ~ Louis Armstrong

  • Writing Is …

    Writing is beauty and beauty is writing ~ R.M. Engelhardt    

  • DUST

      I have long since disappeared from these places. Time speaks and all I have left is gone where meaningless gestures from strangers in a foreign land signify nothing, the circle once more revolving and unfolding the mysteries of sleep. And everything, macrocosm and microcosm, has merely become a dream. Dead sonnets and broken memories.…

  • THE DAY GOD BECAME POPULAR

                  We were hanging out drinking a few shots with that asshole Mephistopheles. He (as usual) was trying to boug a few drinks, and (as usual) we..ignored him. At work as usual it was one long fucking day. I was stuck putting up the sequoia’s and disagreed; God liked…

  • THE LAST UNDERGROUND POEM

      So when the day finally comes I will probably have already Checked out of the room, Tired, so tired after years of words And poems and voices and far too Old to care anymore About the nightly news. And yet? From somewhere six Feet underground I will still be able to Hear the wind,…

  • THE ALBANY WORDFEST 2013

    AND SO IT BEGINS … THIS WEEKEND!

  • 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,…

  • Instructions & invocations in preparation for the trip across the great river Styx

    1} Place two coins (one over each eye) before you start your journey to give to the ferryman. Your all seeing God may be waiting but just like an amusement park or a Disney film, it’s gonna cost you. *Cancel that. Apparently they no longer accept coins and have now jimmied the price up to…

  • Alan Moore’s Advice To Writers …