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About The Pamphlet Collection:
This blog was started by Alexis Clements in order to help her explore the history of pamphlets, particularly early American and contemporary political and religious pamphlets. The research and discoveries made will help to support New Acquisition, the project Clements launched in 2007. If you find or receive interesting pamphlets from anywhere in the world, scan them and send over a copy of post them in the comments section—I’d love to see them.

About Alexis Clements:
A 2006/2007 fellow of the Dramatists Guild of America and recipient of a Puffin Foundation Artist Grant for New Acquisition, Clements’s plays have been produced in both the UK and the US and her short stories have appeared in a handful of publications, including Route’s Ideas Above Our Station. She has also written for such magazines as Nature, Aesthetica, and Travel New England. For more information visit www.alexisclements.com

About New Acquisition:
New Acquisition is a series of free literary pamphlets—brief pamphlets filled with writing and art focused on a variety of themes. Design inspiration and themes for each issue are drawn from early and contemporary American religious and political pamphlets.

The primary goal of New Acquisition is to expose the public to contemporary creative work by emerging female artists and writers via mass distribution of pamphlets. This overarching goal encompasses a handful of individual goals including the promotion of emerging female artists and writers—creative people who are currently under-represented in literary magazines, book publishing and art galleries; to encourage artists to react creatively to political and social debates; and also to help wrestle literary and artistic work out of the ever-shrinking niche that it generally exists within. New Acquisition, will work to achieve these goals through the combined distribution of free printed pamphlets and the offering of an online forum (www.newacquisition.org) in which the public can react to the work. In addition, we have added a performance component to the distribution of the pamphlets, building installations and performance pieces that draw from the themes of the pamphlets as a means of further engaging audiences in the work.