Acts + Encounters

Acts + Encounters is a collaboration between micro-press eohippus labs, co-edited by Harold Abramowitz and Amanda Ackerman, and Poetry + Politics Imprint, edited by Andrea Quaid and Juliana Leslie. Acts + Encounters grew out of a conference held at the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2012. The UCSC Poetry and Politics Research Cluster hosted the two-day event, “Emergent Communities in Contemporary Experimental Writing.” In the anthology 12 poet/critics focus on ways in which contemporary writers make use of the notion of community both critically and creatively across many different arenas, including small press publishing, virtual and digital work, academic affiliation and teaching, interdisciplinary and performance art, and intersecting aesthetic, social and political identities and representations.