Mêlée Live No. 1, Winter 2011

Mêlée Live is a print magazine of poetry, politics and art which also has a substantial online presence. Mêlée Live is the descendant of Mêlée magazine, which quickly got the attention of the international poetry community in 2007. Mêlée Live. No.1. Winter 2011. THE MFA SCHOOL: A call for submissions was sent to every MFA writing program in the country requesting one poem only from any student currently enrolled. We received over 200 submissions (via email) from 57 writing programs. Five poems were selected from five poets to be included in this issue. One story was solicited to provide some balance. This issue also contains commentary and an editor's note which addresses the question of what it means to be an American poet. What it means to be in The MFA School. IN THE MFA SCHOOL ISSUE: Kaj Anderson-Bauer, J. R. Bouchard, Jen Coleman, Kevin Finn, Jess Quinlan, Todd B. Stevens. Ed Sanders also provides a comment on The MFA School. Mêlée Live is published three times a year, in conjunction with Mêlée Live Monthly: a new pocket-sized monthly magazine which includes one poet, one story and one essay or one translation in each monthly issue. Mêlée Live and Mêlée Live Monthly are published by USPOCO BOOKS, the publishing division of us poetry company. S U B M I S S I O N S Mêlée Live Monthly: Submissions are read year round. A response is only guaranteed if the work is accepted. We make no claims about "simultaneous submissions." Submit your work wherever you want, silly! After three weeks, if you have not heard from our staff, you may inquire (via one email) on the status of a submitted work. Send all submissions (five to ten pages of poetry, one story or one essay) to uspocobooks@gmail.com. Include current month, genre and writer's last name in the subject line. Submissions may also be considered for publication @ ManuFacturedArtists.com, a blog of the arts. Do not include "contributor's notes" or bios, for we do not publish them. Mêlée Live: Most issues are themed. In un-themed issues, submissions are solicited. Mêlée Live has no open reading period. If submitting a relevant work for a themed issue, send your submission, in any format, to uspocobooks@gmail.com. We only accept email submissions. THE NEW ROTATING EDITORSHIP: Each volume of Mêlée Live includes three issues published over one calendar year, Januaryish, Aprilish and Septemberish. Editorial duties will be passed on each year (method to be determined by current editor), including full creative control of the magazine for all three issues of the volume. The magazine may be housed anywhere in the US, provided certain guidelines are met in documenting all agreements/contracts for a given volume. For more information on the rotating editorship (or to apply for the editor position for Volume 2), email the editors at uspocobooks@gmail.com. Visit us in the Live Connection at uspoco.com and ManuFacturedArtsits.com.