Robert Klein Engler lives in Oak Park, Illinois and sometimes New Orleans. He holds degrees from the University of Illinois in Urbana and the University of Chicago. Michael Morgan writing in the Comstock Review says that Robert Klein Engler "...is a poet of the first rank."
Many of Robert’s poems and stories are set in the Crescent City. "Justin the Pirate," is available in the Harrington Gay Men's Fiction Quarterly, "Red Beans and Rice," is online at the Drunken Boat, and "The Approach to Pilottown," is at Blithe House Quarterly. His long poem, The Accomplishment of Metaphor and the Necessity of Suffering, set partially in New Orleans, is published by Headwaters Press, Medusa, New York, 2004. He has received an Illinois Arts Council award for his "Three Poems for Kabbalah."
If you google his name, then you may find his work on the Internet. Some of his books are available at Lulu.com and amazon.com.
"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
