RAW POEMS BY R.M. ENGELHARDT RAW WORDS, RAW OPINIONS, RAW TRUTH.
RAW anger initiated by those who embrace racism, prejudice & hate .
RAW humor and honesty, odes to icons as human beings. And the RAW deception of political failures destroying our world as we speak.RAW POETRY No cliches. No punches held back. RAW imagery swept up in the mourning of our times.
This is RAW . This is POETRY. This is a DECLARATION
Of WAR and a verbally destructive threat, a manifesto to those who would annihilate freedom and democracy in these days of idiots & insincerity.
This isn't just a book about political poems but about poetry & life itself.
Upstate NY based poet, writer R.M. Engelhardt has published several books over the last 25 years including The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt & others. Engelhardt through his ideas & visions has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate, Albany, NY spoken word~poetry scene. His work has also been published by many journals both in print including Writers Resist, Telepoem, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, dry land lit, 2nd Avenue, The Angry Poet,Danse Macabre, Full of Crow & many others. He is also the founder of the group Albany Poets.
His books are "Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems" (Alien Buddha Press) and "Darklands" 2019 (Whiskey City Press) Where There Is No Vision & We Rise Like Smoke Poems Psalms Incantations Published by DeadMansPressInk Now Available on Amazon, 2021.