Charles Simic calls the prose poem ‘the monster child of two incompatible strategies, the lyric and the narrative,’ and says that it demonstrates ‘the lyric’s wish to make the time stop around an image,’ as well as the desire ‘to tell a little story.’ The prose poem is frequently compared and contrasted with flash fiction, yet rarely is it explicitly considered as a medium for conveying nonfiction content. Simic’s definition doesn’t exclude such a relationship; so what happens when the ‘little story’ is drawn from real world experience? Poems in this issue of Rabbit, selected by renowned prose poetry scholars and poets Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington, reconsider the potential of the prose poem along nonfiction lines. Featuring works byOuyang Yu, Wes Lee, Anne Elvey, Claire Gaskin, Anne Caldwell, Berndt Sellheim, Carl Walsh, Lois Roma-Deeley and more.