Novelist and creator of “literal objects,” Alain Arias-Misson has written from Paris to let us know he’ll be in NYC in March. Performance Arts Journal is doing a portfolio on his “Public Poem” and Emily Harvey Foundation is doing a presentation on March 14th. If you’re on that coast we hope you’ll attend.

Alain is one of fifteen luminous contributors to the forthcoming Oulipo Pornobongo: Anthology of Erotic Wordplay to be published mid-October. It’s #4 in our Absurdist Texts & Documents series.

He also revealed the hottest social networking site in France—Fèces-book. Now you know why our logo is grinning.

And speaking of fèces…

Another contributor to Pornobongo, Opal Louis Nations was editor of his own press, Strange Faeces, which brought to the public’s attention fresh young poets and writers, both in the publication of books and through his literary magazine, Strange Faeces.

Alas, good shit like that is hard to find.