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Robert Michael Engelhardt (born 1964 in Albany, New York) is an American poet and performance artist as well as a writer whose work has been published in various journals such as Retort, Verve, Industrial Nation, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, and many others.

Ten books of his poetry were published by Dead Man's Press Ink such as "Logos, 1995", "Versus, 2009" as well as his book of collected poems "The Last Cigarette-Poems By R.M. Engelhardt 1989-2006".

The founder of the group Albany Poets in May of 2000 along with its current president Thom Francis, he was also the creator of such widely attended events in upstate NY as Albany Wordfest. He is an ordained minister of Spiritual Humanism and also runs an open mic for poets & poetry called "VoX" at a nightclub called "The Fuze Box", also known in the past as the QE2 in Albany, New York.