SIERRA ON INDIE-FEED!

Sierra was yesterday's feature on the amazing IndieFeed:Performance Poetry podcast. Check out Sierra perform 1 AM - CLICK HERE TO LISTEN. She was also featured a few months ago with her performing Talking to God - CLICK HERE TO LISTEN. Congrats Sierra! And special shout-out to Mongo who hosts IndieFeed: Performance Poetry. Thanks for running our favorite podcast on the whole interweb!

CARMEN PUBLISHED ONLINE

Carmen Mojica was recently published in Awaken Consciousness, an online magazine: Re-Volt.

OMNICORE

Congratulations to our very own Omni, who won his semi-final bout at the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe last night. He is now qualified for the Grand Slam which is an extremely difficult feat and a huge honor.

FREE GOODIES

The Intangible Collective would like to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. As a special treat we have a bunch of new goodies for free download on the side of our site. Check out some great new hip-hop albums from some of our Intangible emcees.

NUYO FEATURE

Eden Connelly & Fritz will be doing a Friday night feature at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe this week on November 20th. There shall be some guest appearances by Omni and Bamboo MC in their set.

COLLEGE SLAM TEAMS

Congrats to two of our Intangible members for making their college slam teams this week, earning the rights to compete at CUPSI (College Union Poetry Slam Invitational) at Emerson College in 2010. Kristen Tomanocy became the first ever female SUNY Oneonta Grand Slam Champion on Wednesday while Megan Falley once again made the SUNY New Paltz slam team on Thursday. Also a congrats to our good friend Chris Milea for taking the Grand Slam Champ title at New Paltz.

AFTERMATH OF THE STORM

Our book-release weekend has come to a succesful end. The shows went amazing and of course we have a list of mega thank you's!

Thursday ... Thank you to JB and all of Herkimer County Community College for being one of our favorite venues to perform at every semester. Once again an amazing turnout and the energy was loud as always.

Friday ... Thank you to Sand Creek Middle School for welcoming us into your library for an amazing workshop. 56 students showed up to learn more about spoken word from Bamboo MC, Fritz, Eden, B-Nice, and Fascious. That night our show at Valentines went amazing with a warm crowd and one of the most solid poetry sets we've ever produced. Thank you to the Albany Poets, Absolute, and the rest of Dustwun Productions for sharing the stage with us.

Saturday ... Thank you to all who came out to Deity in Brooklyn. Of course our favorite photographer, Jonathan Weiskopf was there to take some amazing pictures throughout the evening, so check out those pictures HERE.

STATIC AND OTHER LUNGLESS THINGS

We've been holding out on the announcement for some time now, but it is now official. The Intangible Collective presents "Static And Other Lungless Things". This book is the first of three anthologies of Intangible Poetry being published by Penmanship Books. It is officially on sale today. CLICK HERE TO BUY.

STATIC AFTER THE STORM

The Collective will be hitting the road in a few weeks for a fall tour we are calling Static After The Storm.

Nov. 5th - HCCC @ Herkimer, NY
Nov. 6th - Valentines @ Albany, NY
Nov. 7th - Deity @ Brooklyn, NY

STATEMENT

We are aware that one of our poets, Tracy Soren, has become part of a controversy regarding the cancellation of a panel at the national J Street Conference in Washington. In the organization’s official statement, they claim that in the name of “being critical of the use and abuse of Holocaust imagery and metaphors,” it would be “inappropriate” that they feature poets “whose poetry has used such imagery in the past and might also be offensive to some conference participants.”

We disagree with the censoring of this discussion before it began, and further believe that Ms. Soren has been falsely labeled under this statement, as well as in various media references depicting the session in question as “anti-Israel” or a “poetry slam.” The session, to include non-competitive performance poetry and a panel discussion, was titled “Culture as a Tool for Change,” as seen HERE.

Ms. Soren is a gifted poet, and one sensitive to and proud of her Jewish heritage. She has never used, much less abused Holocaust imagery in her poetry. Her viewpoint on the Arab-Israeli conflict is her own, and admittedly complex, to the point that she has as of yet refrained from participating in that dialogue with her art.

We fully support Ms. Soren in her quest to clarify the current misrepresentations of her beliefs, wherever they might arise.

SEMI-FINAL SLAM

Don't Forget! Tonight is the First Semi-Final Intangible Slam @ Port 41. It will be featuring our very own Caroline Rothstein.

FAMILY EXPANSION

The Intangible Collective would like to welcome James Merenda to the Intangible Family*!

*No animal sacrifices were used and no local/state laws were violated in the initiation process.

SIERRA IN IWPS FINALS

Sierra will be competing in finals at the Individual World Poetry Slam today! We are so excited for her. Good luck to her and also to 6 is 9 and Alvin Lau.

SIERRA AT IWPS

Best of luck to Sierra who will be competing at the Individual World Poetry Slam in Berkeley, CA this week from October 8th - 10th. Also, our favorite left coast Intangible, Matt Siegel will be there on a panel discussing Slam & Academia.

OMNI'S NEW TATTOO

Omni Got an Intangible Tattoo on his Birthday.
CLICK HERE to see dedication.

INTANGIBLE SLAM TONIGHT

Tonight. Thursday - October 1, 8:00pm – 10:30pm
Port 41, 355 West 41st Street, Manhattan, NY
Hosted by the Intangible's own Brian "Omni" Dillon

SITE UPDATE

The site's been worked on. And we promise to update more frequent. Check around!

SIERRA IN THE HUFFINGTON POST

Sierra was featured in the Huffington Post this past week.
Click here to read the article now.

GONE FISHIN'

Retreat weekend, all of us are heading to the Adirondacks to fight some bears with our poetry. Thank you to all the teens and teachers who showed up to our workshop last night in Colonie. You all had amazing work, really inspired us... keep writing over the summer!

SIERRA WINS NATIONALS

Sierra DeMulder and her Saint Paul team just won the 2009 PSI National Poetry Slam. Congratulations Sierra, Mike, El Guante, and 6 is 9, you all deserve this so much!

SIERRA MAKES FINALS AT NATIONALS

We are proud to announce Sierra DeMulder and her amazing team from Saint Paul just made finals at the 2009 PSI National Poetry Slam taking place in Florida. Finals takes place tomorrow, we will surely be updating the page with updates.

FASCIOUS AT FRINGE FESTIVAL

The Intangible Collective will be presenting Fascious's one man Hip Hop musical Penumbra at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival (which brings out 75,000 theatergoers annually). Tickets are currently on sale for 5 exclusive performances taking place August 17, 20, 23, 26, and 29. For more information, please go to FringeNYC.com

The show was recently featured at The Producers Perspective as one of the 10 shows that stand out at this year's Frigne Festival.

INTANGIBLE SLAM NYC TOMORROW

Don't forget... The Intangible Collective will be hosting their first official slam tomorrow, July 16th @ Port 41 in NYC. 355 W 41st Street (btw. 8th Ave and 9th Ave). There wil be a $100 grand prize for the winner. Free Admission. 7pm sign up and 8pm will be when the slam starts.

INTANGIBLE CHINA?

Check Out This Picture! That's our good friend JB rocking the 'Where Theres Smoke Theres Fire' Tour T-Shirt at the Great Wall of China! He's a professor over at Herkimer County Community College (...which happens to have the best audience ever for poetry shows). JB has been one of our biggest supporters for years now, actually since the beginning, and we hope he knows how much we sincerely appreciate all the hard work he's done for us.

NATIONAL POETRY SLAM 2009

The National Poetry Slam 2009 is taking place in West Palm Beach, Florida in August. Representing the Intangibles is: Sierra DeMulder, who will be competing again with her Saint Paul Slam Team. Also Joseph LMS, who will be competing with the SlamRichmond squad. Congratulations fam!

INTANGIBLE SLAM NYC

The Intangible Collective will be hosting their first official slam on July 16th @ Port 41 in NYC. 355 W 41st Street (btw. 8th Ave and 9th Ave). There wil be a $100 grand prize for the winner. Free Admission. 7pm sign up and 8pm will be when the slam starts.

TRACYS TAKING OVER!

More Intangible Publishing! Congratulations to Tracy Soren who is one of three recipients of the The Cora Craig Author Award for Young Women. For more info go to PenmanshipBooks.com. Congratulations Tracy, you deserve this so much!

SAINT PEACE @ SOUTHERN FRIED

Congratulations to Saint Peace and Team Voltron who placed 6th at the Southern Fried Poetry Slam this past weekend in North Carolina.

SIERRA WRITES BLOODY

The Intangible Takeover continues. Sierra DeMulder is officially the newest author in the Write Bloody Publishing lineup. For more info go to WriteBloody.com.
Congratulations Sierra. We love you so much and are so proud of you.

NUYO!

Omni and Tracy Soren will be competing for spots on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe slam team for Nationals this year! Tracy's bout is May 29th and Omni's bout is June 5th. Come support them this is as big as it gets!

SOUNDBITES UPDATE

Well Soundbites has come and passed. We had a team in all three bouts and we all placed second in our bouts. Regardless, the Intangibles were in full effect for one hell of a night. Congrats to Meta-Four, Diction Your Mouth, and Champ Camp for their performances. And also a congratulations to all the other teams who made the night an eargasm of poetry.

SOUNDBITES

The Intangible Collective will be sending three teams to the Soundbites Poetry Slam Festival this weekend in Times Square, NYC to compete for $1,000. For more information please go to Soundbites NYC.

PICTURES!

Some amazing shots from the last stop of our Annual Tour have been posted online (CLICK HERE). Photos were taken by the very talented Jonathan Weiskopf, browse around his Flickr for some other great photo series.

...AND THE FIRE BURNS OUT TILL NEXT YEAR

So the 2nd Annual Where There's Smoke There's Fire tour has come to an exhausting end. We'd like to first give a huge thank you to all of those who came out to any of the shows these past four nights. We hope you had as much fun as we did up on stage. The four day tour was filled with reunions, hugs, beers, train tracks, haiku death-match, and even a chair being thrown in the audience (Zev?).

Pictures, video, and audio from the tour will be up soon. And a huge thank you goes out to our good friend Spike who came on the tour with us to record all the shows and third-round action. We got a busy week ahead of us with Soundbites around the corner, more info on that in the next few days.

WHAT WE'VE BEEN UP TO...

Although April is the official first month of the Intangible Collective, March has been a month that will go down in the history of our organization.

At the 2009 ACUI Collegiate Nationals (better known as CUPSI - College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational), the Intangibles were in full effect! Omni coached the SUNY New Paltz team that also featured members Tracy Soren and Kerri Shaffer to the Semi-Finals! We are beyond proud of them, as the compeition was ridiculous this year and this was the largest college national poetry slam in history.

If that's not enough of an Intangible Takeover...Caroline Rothstein coached the UPenn team to 1st in the Nation, while Kristen Tomanocy coached the SUNY Oneonta team and Bamboo MC and TJ Natole hosted the semi-finals bout.

Oh but that's not it... Sierra DeMulder was named 'Best Female Poet' at College Nationals and also led her team from SUNY Minnesota to Semi-Finals. And THEN, a week later went to the Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWPS) where after the first day of bouts she was ranked 6th out of 72 of the best female poets in the world and ended up finishing 25th in the world!

Also, huge congratulations to Omni again who competed this past Friday, March 27 in the Semi-Final Slam at the legendary Nuyorican Poet's Cafe in NYC!

WHERE THERES SMOKE, THERES FIRE

Be sure to come see our 2nd Annual Intangible Family tour.
April 1st - SUNY Oneonta
April 2nd - Herkimer County Community College
April 3rd - SUNY New Paltz
April 4th - NYC

WELCOME TO THE OFFICIAL SITE

The Intangible Collective has finally launched.