R.M. ENGELHARDT

Poet Writer Author Albany NY

  • R.M. ENGELHARDT POET AUTHOR WRITER's avatarR.M. ENGELHARDT

    Of Spirit Ash & Bone Poems*Parables By R.M. Engelhardt

    R.M. Engelhardt

    Today Is The Day …

    AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER:

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    POEMS ~PARABLES BY R.M. ENGELHARDT
    2022 Copyright DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    Is the New Book By Author, Poet & Writer R.M. Engelhardt is something entirely different & new that has been written in the poetic form & style of Sermons & Southern Gothic*Biblical Religious texts as well as in other verse styles. Unlike his previous poems and works over the last some 25 years Engelhardt uses these old forms to take on the problems and issues of today, now the 21st Century like War, Poverty, Racism & The Earth’s Present State of Oppression & Global Warming. Still a strong proponent and supporter of unique, experimental literary forms and Pagan Poetics R.M. Engelhardt has created a book which thus transcends, returns…

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  • The Last Real Poet
    The Last Real Poet By R.M. Engelhardt

    THE LAST REAL POET

    The last real poet
    Sits alone by himself
    Somewhere in a cabin
    In Upstate NY
    Around the age of 95

    Still alive

    But they all forgot about him
    Years Ago

    The prizes
    The many lives many
    Loves he had once

    His memory fades
    From time to time
    Unsure if it was all real

    Meeting Kerouac
    Was just like yesterday
    Reading upon the stage
    Drinking beers & whiskey
    Meeting all the Beatniks &
    Ferlinghetti

    Ginsburg was just
    A smart kid, Corso a punk
    Who swore alot
    And clammored
    For everyone’s attention

    Whining

    He remembers
    The applause and the hip
    Hot beautiful girl with long brown
    Hair who took him home
    That night

    Only to receive
    A long distance call
    From her nine months
    Later

    Hey
    Daddy’O

    What gives?

    Where’s the
    Dough?

    So
    He wrote
    And wrote
    And wrote

    Was published
    Everywhere
    His books now rare

    Recieves letters
    Every now & then
    From college kids
    Who found one of
    His books at a library dollar
    Sale, praising him
    As a genius, a poet

    But the literary cannon

    Doesn’t
    Never cares
    Or gives in
    Or gives a shit

    Recognize
    Beauty or sadness
    Street poets or
    Vagabonds
    Madness or unformalist
    Poetry

    Far too consumed
    With the fear of
    Honesty, cancel
    Culture or a frightful
    Reckoning

    When most
    Of his kind are
    All dead

    His legacy
    Torn from the days
    The pages of true
    Freedom & non censorship

    We were all labeled ” Communists”
    For publishing

    The Truth

    Stood

    Behind
    Martin Luther King
    And at Jack’s
    Grave the same
    Decade

    Saw
    The world
    His words helped
    To create only
    To be betrayed
    By all those hippies
    Who traded in their love
    For the mighty dollar

    “Sorry”

    But we can’t
    Publish you

    Your work
    Just doesn’t
    Seem to fit

    We just want
    To hear another
    Version of the same old
    Shit we just published
    Last week

    “Fuck Off”

    His rough voice says

    Fuck. Off.

    With your
    Boring trite mighty
    White ass kissing
    Journal of garbage
    Packaged in flowers
    That follows trends

    Do you have a Facebook?
    An Instagram?

    Fuck no.

    Poetry
    Is meant to live
    Upon the page

    And not
    On some ridiculous
    Flavor of the month
    TV screen

    Takes a shot
    Of whiskey

    Goes to sleep

    And dreams

    Where he and
    Mingus are
    Shooting pool
    In a NYC dive bar

    And
    He smacks
    Some faux celebrity
    Writer in the head
    Smoking a diva stick

    For talking too much

    And being
    Annoying

    The last real poet
    Sat alone by himself
    Somewhere in a cabin
    In Upstate NY
    And last night he died
    Around the age of 95

    A small obituary
    Appeared in the NY Times

    And thousands
    Of writers & poets
    On their computers
    Put up memorials with
    His poems claiming

    He was a genius
    And I’ve read all
    His books

    Which
    Two months later
    Appeared in all the
    Bookstores

    Published by
    The boring trite mighty
    White ass kissing
    Journal of garbage
    Packaged in flowers
    That follows trends

    Who bought
    All the rights
    To his life

    With the sales pitch:

    He was friends with Kerouac
    And Bukowski before Bukowski

    He was The Last Real Poet

    Buried now

    In an unassuming pauper’s

    Grave

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt
    ©2022

  • R.M. ENGELHARDT POET AUTHOR WRITER's avatarR.M. ENGELHARDT

    DMITRY WILDAT INVOCATION OF THE MUSE POETRY OPEN MIC

    DMITRY WILD AT INVOCATION OF THE MUSE POETRY OPEN MIC AT LARK HALL

    Sponsored By Dead Man’s Press Ink Albany NY

    INVOCATION OF THE MUSE: 

    MONDAY JUNE 6TH With Our Featured Poet

    DMITRY WILD ( Of Dmitry Wild & The Spells)

    With HOUSES IN MOTION (Beats + Electronics)

    ALBANY, NY’s OPEN MIC FOR POETS, WRITERS, POETRY & THE SPOKEN WORD AT LARK HALL!

    *Join Us For Our Monthly Open Mic At

    LARK HALL 351 Hudson Avenue , Albany NY

    *7:30pm Sign Up

    8pm StartTime

    *$5.00 Donation Requested*

    Sponsored By

    DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK ALBANY NY

    Hosted By R.M. Engelhardt

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  • DMITRY WILD AT INVOCATION OF THE MUSE POETRY OPEN MIC

    DMITRY WILD AT INVOCATION OF THE MUSE POETRY OPEN MIC AT LARK HALL
    Sponsored By Dead Man’s Press Ink Albany NY

    INVOCATION OF THE MUSE: 

    MONDAY JUNE 6TH With Our Featured Poet

    DMITRY WILD ( Of Dmitry Wild & The Spells)

    With HOUSES IN MOTION (Beats + Electronics)

    ALBANY, NY’s OPEN MIC FOR POETS, WRITERS, POETRY & THE SPOKEN WORD AT LARK HALL!

     *Join Us For Our Monthly Open Mic At 

    LARK HALL 351 Hudson Avenue , Albany NY

    *7:30pm Sign Up

    8pm StartTime

    *$5.00 Donation Requested*

    Sponsored By 

    DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK ALBANY NY

    Hosted By R.M. Engelhardt

    www.deadmanspressink.com

  • Of Spirit, Ash & Bone Now Available on Amazon

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    Is the New Book By Author, Poet & Writer R.M. Engelhardt is something entirely different & new that has been written in the poetic form & style of Sermons & Southern Gothic*Biblical Religious texts as well as in other verse styles. Unlike his previous poems and works over the last some 25 years Engelhardt uses these old forms to take on the problems and issues of today, now the 21st Century like War, Poverty, Racism & The Earth’s Present State of Oppression & Global Warming. Still a strong proponent and supporter of unique, experimental literary forms and Pagan Poetics R.M. Engelhardt has created a book which thus transcends, returns us all to a lost forgotten language of old and of the pure school of “Damnation, Fire & Brimstone” in the context of reaching a new generation with the warnings and poetic prophecies of change before it’s far too late.

    Get Your Copy Here:

    http://www.deadmanspressink.com
    R.M. Engelhardt
  • Today Is The Day

    AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER:

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    POEMS ~PARABLES BY R.M. ENGELHARDT
    2022 Copyright DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    Is the New Book By Author, Poet & Writer R.M. Engelhardt is something entirely different & new that has been written in the poetic form & style of Sermons & Southern Gothic*Biblical Religious texts as well as in other verse styles. Unlike his previous poems and works over the last some 25 years Engelhardt uses these old forms to take on the problems and issues of today, now the 21st Century like War, Poverty, Racism & The Earth’s Present State of Oppression & Global Warming. Still a strong proponent and supporter of unique, experimental literary forms and Pagan Poetics R.M. Engelhardt has created a book which thus transcends, returns us all to a lost forgotten language of old and of the pure school of “Damnation, Fire & Brimstone” in the context of reaching a new generation with the warnings and poetic prophecies of change before it’s far too late.

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  • Of Spirit Ash & Bone Poems*Parables By R.M. Engelhardt
    R.M. Engelhardt

    Today Is The Day …

    AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER:

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    POEMS ~PARABLES BY R.M. ENGELHARDT
    2022 Copyright DEAD MAN’S PRESS INK

    OF SPIRIT, ASH & BONE
    Is the New Book By Author, Poet & Writer R.M. Engelhardt is something entirely different & new that has been written in the poetic form & style of Sermons & Southern Gothic*Biblical Religious texts as well as in other verse styles. Unlike his previous poems and works over the last some 25 years Engelhardt uses these old forms to take on the problems and issues of today, now the 21st Century like War, Poverty, Racism & The Earth’s Present State of Oppression & Global Warming. Still a strong proponent and supporter of unique, experimental literary forms and Pagan Poetics R.M. Engelhardt has created a book which thus transcends, returns us all to a lost forgotten language of old and of the pure school of “Damnation, Fire & Brimstone” in the context of reaching a new generation with the warnings and poetic prophecies of change before it’s far too late.

  • It is and will always be what you say, what you write and what art you actually create that truly matters the most. Popularity doesn’t determine your worth and the followers will always come & go looking for the next big thing. That’s the unfortunate side effect of too much mass media. People not noticing what’s amazing or beautiful, what’s lasting or meaningful right in front of their own eyes. Poetry & art, music isn’t fast food. It’s eternal.

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt

  • INVOCATION OF THE MUSE: Open Mic For Poets Moving To Lark Hall 04.04.22

    INVOCATION OF THE MUSE:
    The Open Mic For Poets, Poetry & The
    Spoken Word
    sponsored by Dead Man’s Press Ink is moving to Albany NY’s amazing venue Lark Hall located at 351 Hudson Avenue on Monday, April 4th 2022 kicking off National Poetry Month.

    DeadMansPressInk & myself are excited to announce the return of The Poetry Open Mic which will as always be an all inclusive poetry mic for all where poets are welcome to share their work with others. Formerly held at the Fuzebox we are currently creating new events for them and will now continue to run our monthly First Friday One Performance Poet evening The Dead Man’s Press Spoken Word Showcase along with Albany’s Legendary Goth Darkwave Night HEX to follow as well as beforehand local bands & mixed media events supporting the Albany Music & Art scenes.

    *So please join Us For Our First Open Mic at Lark Hall On MONDAY April 4th

    *7:30pm SignUp*8PM Start Time

    $5.00 Donation Requested.

    POETRY LIVES IN ALBANY NY !

    Hosted By R.M. Engelhardt

    See You There!

    INVOCATION OF THE MUSE AT LARK HALL 351 Hudson Avenue, Albany NY
    First Fridays Fuzebox
  • Of Spirit, Ash & Bone Poems Parables Coming Soon
    Of Spirit Ash & Bone

    We live in destitute times wherein the gospel of greed and financial profit, not prophecy, answers our existential questions. The good poet, just as the prophet in days gone by, speaks to us in a language that jolts our memory and challenges our power of self-perception and imagination.

    ~ John Dewey

    Of Spirit, Ash & Bone is the new book of poetry coming out soon and to be released by Dead Man’s Press Ink in 2022. Unlike my past work Spirit will be something different and unexpected yet still falling into the genre of pagan poetics as well as what could even be considered narrative & southern gothic. Also, the book will include a section of poems released in 2016 from my past book ” The Bones of Our Existence” which was only previously released on Kindle and are a series of pieces that were based on dystopian dreams that literally forced me to write the words & images down. Included in Spirit are also short narrative fables, stories which are based upon myth as well as what can only be called modern folklore for the 21st century. More News coming soon.

    Best,

    ~ R.M. Engelhardt

    R.M. Engelhardt