Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts has long been a venue for writing that engages with the pressing realities of its time. The 2026 regular poetry submission call for issue 30, titled 'Standing Up: Coping with Vast Domestic and Global Change,' asks poets to confront a world in flux—climate change, foreign wars, assaults on civil liberties, genocide, and the domestic and foreign policies of the current administration. The journal seeks work that responds to these conditions, not as abstract commentary but as lived experience, exploring how the writer and citizen copes. This is a call for poetry that stands up, that refuses to look away. The scope is deliberately broad: the editors state they are open to all styles, but favor poetry with an edge. That edge may be formal, tonal, or thematic—what matters is a sharpness of vision and a willingness to engage. Each poem is limited to 100 lines, and poets may submit up to three poems unless invited to resubmit by an editor. The journal asks for unpublished and unposted work only, and a short bio note. There is no submission fee, and the editors request two to six months for consideration, a timeline that reflects careful reading rather than cursory review. What artists receive is publication in a journal that has consistently provided a platform for writing of consequence. Cutthroat does not promise prizes or awards; it offers a readership and a context. The curatorial vision is one of urgency and craft: the editors are looking for poems that grapple with vast change without sacrificing artistic rigor. This is not a call for protest slogans or easy resolutions, but for the complex, textured work that helps us understand how to stand up when the ground is shifting.