Melica is a genus of perennial grasses known generally as melic or melic grass. Melica stricta is a species of grass known by the common name rock melic. He has also been the Managing Editor of the online literary magazine "Melic Review". Melic grasses are clumping to short-rhizomatous grasses. Some species of melic have corms, lending them the name oniongrass. Because such works were typically sung, it was also known as melic poetry.