ARCH is the University at Albany’s Undergraduate Literary Journal, which publishes all forms of original, diverse, and generative art twice a year.

We hope you enjoy the wide range of poetry, prose, and visual arts that we have the honor of publishing this semester. To all our contributors: please never stop creating, even and especially, in the world we live in today.

We would like to thank the UAlbany Writing Center, our contributors, the Editor’s Collective (whose works you can find in their own special feature), and of course, our wonderful, wise, and ever-helpful faculty director, Dr. Jil Hanifan.

With love and appreciation for the creative world:

The managing editors for Spring 2026:

Benjamin Ruszala & Nailah Brightman