Last Leaves Magazine has opened a call for poetry for its eleventh issue, organized around the theme of balance. The editors frame the theme through their own recent reckoning with the competing demands of work, family, and creative life, and they extend that inquiry to contributors: what in your life requires rebalancing, where do you falter, where do you find steadiness? The prompt admits both the metaphorical and the literal, inviting poems about a loss of footing on a trail or a sidewalk, or about falling short of something that mattered. This is a no-fee submission opportunity, which matters for poets weighing where to place work. There is no prize attached and no reading fee; the transaction is straightforward—poems in, editorial consideration out. The magazine publishes online, and the deadline is fixed at November 30, 2026, giving contributors a defined window rather than a rolling or ambiguous reading period. The curatorial vision here is thematic rather than formal. The editors are not prescribing a style, a length, or a school; they are asking for work that engages honestly with disequilibrium and its remedies. Poems that treat balance as a subject to be interrogated rather than a slogan to be affirmed will likely fare best. The theme is broad enough to accommodate narrative, lyric, and experimental approaches, provided the engagement with the theme is genuine and specific.