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.