Kathleen Radigan

Biography

Kathleen Radigan’s work has appeared in The Yale Review, Guernica, TriQuarterly, and McSweeney’s, among others. Her comics have also been featured in The New Yorker and The Rumpus. She teaches high school English in New York City.

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POETRY / Winter 2025

The Principal

By Kathleen Radigan

Senior year he made us girls file into the gym for martial arts.

Next year, you may need to protect yourselves, he bellowed.

POETRY / Winter 2025

Intimacies

By Kathleen Radigan

A little death—a sky 
with geese stitched on.
My fears are all explainable— 
it’s cortisol, it’s fate, 
the jerk of mercury, 
the joints’ arthritic 
prescience about rain.