Oulipo

OULIPO. OULIPO is the Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle, or Workshop of Potential Literature, a group of writers and mathematicians.

Members include Raymond Queneau, François Le Lionnais, Claude Berge, Georges Perec, and Italo Calvino. This laboratory of literary structures produced, among other works, Queneau's outlandish book: Cent Mille Milliards de Poèmes, which indeed offers the reader one hundred trillion (1014) poems. Oulipo Poems. Oulipo. Oulipo. Oulipo (French pronunciation: ​[ulipo], short for French: Ouvroir de littérature potentielle; roughly translated: "workshop of potential literature") is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians which seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais.

Other notable members have included novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poets Oskar Pastior, Jean Lescure and poet/mathematician Jacques Roubaud. Poetic Techniques: OULIPO.