Robert Klein Engler lives in Oak Park, Illinois and New Orleans. He is a writer and artist whose work is sometimes characterized as politically incorrect. Born on the southwest side of Chicago, Robert taught many years at Richard J. Daley College, until he was banned by the chancellor. Robert holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana and the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has received 2 Illinois Arts Council awards for his poetry. Just google his name to find his writing on the Internet.
Michael Morgan writing in the Comstock Review says that Robert Klein Engler "...is a poet of the first rank." Another reviewer on amazon.com disagrees. This reviewer says that Engler's book, A Winter of Words, is trash and that "Engler is a conflicted, sad man who likes to sulk in his book." He then adds, "Mr. Engler you are a Eurocentric nutcase and need to go to a mental hospital."
Larry Winfield of Los Angeles, CA writes that "...I must admit my grievous lack of artistic judgment (sic) in publishing Engler's poetry in past issues of Liquid Glyph"...Engler is "the poetry scene's version of Dinesh D'Souza."
C. J. Laity, editor of ChicagoPoetry.com claims, "I too published this hateful bag of slime...little did I know I was helping to create a nazi monster who was bent on destroying me and all my friends...There are literally thousands of poets in Chicago who are better writers than Engler...he is simply a rotten human being that I prefer not to associate with." These comments are echoed by Ramsin Canon's assessment in Gaper's Block where Canon refers to Engler's writings as a "sublime banquet of bullshit."
"Interview"
"The Approach to Pilottown"
"Red Beans and Rice"
Some Poems:
http://www.triplopia.org/inside.cfm?ct=624 http://www.poetrymagazine.com/archives/1997/october/engler.htm http://www.tryst3.com/issue9/engler.html
http://www.albany.edu/offcourse/winter05/r_klein_engler.html http://www.deepcleveland.com/f-engler.html http://www.angelfire.com/zine/bluefifth/Spring2006/Engler.html
http://www.poetz.com/2003/rkleinengler.htm
http://www.facets-magazine.com/Vol6%20Iss1/engler.html http://www.barefootmuse.com/engler2.htm
Art Work:
http://www.fota.com/klein/samples.html
To order Robert Klein Engler's books, please go to Amazon.com
