Cole Swenson writes that documentary poetry brings ‘language as art into the heart of the language of information’ and that this collision ‘constitute[s] an alternative mode of knowledge... in which truth has nothing to do with clarity, but rather with novelty.’ This issue of Rabbit features long poems on historical figures that explore what the poem can do to probe biographical knowledge. Musicians, aviators, criminals, physicians, activists, recluses, scientists, pioneers, writers and explorers—poets in this issue are drawn to details grand and small, events that changed history and small gestures that make a personality. Featuring work by Kent MacCarter, Benjamin Laird, Chloe Wilson, Mark Peart, Melody Paloma, Helen Rickerby, Julie Chevalier and more.