Poetry

Study Finds

by Chloe Martinez

Study Finds One in Eight Men Think They Could Score
a Point off of Serena Williams. Study finds 13% of boys pretend

expertise; the word the study uses is bullshit. Men Speak
92% of Time on Company Conference Calls, Study Finds. Study finds

male scholars are more likely than female scholars,
across disciplines, to engage in self-

citation. Study finds that men speak twice as often as women do
at colloquiums, a difference that can't be explained away

by rank, speaker pool composition, or women’s interest
in giving talks. Study Finds Men Who Hold Traditional Views of Women

Earn More Than Men Who Don’t. New Study Shows That Men
Are Twice More Likely Than Women to Believe

There Is Equal Gender Fairness in the Workplace. Study
Finds Men Want to Help Women at Work, But Just Don’t Know

How. Married Women Do More Housework than Single Moms, Study Finds.
Study Finds Men Are More Afraid of Bugs than Women.

Study Finds Men Funnier than Women. More than 90%
of Grammy nominees are men, USC study finds.

For Online Daters, Women Peak at 18 While Men Peak
at 50, Study Finds. A Harvard Study Finds that Men are 5

Times More Believable than Women. Alligators have “taste”
for Florida men, study finds.

Women are diagnosed years later than men
for same diseases, study finds. Use of Male Mice Skews

Drug Research Against Women, Study Finds.
Penn Study Finds Men Are More Likely To Receive

CPR in Public than Women. Drivers crowd women on bikes
more often than men, study finds. Nearly 2,000 Women

Murdered by Men in One Year, New Study Finds.

The poem is composed almost entirely of found headlines from American news outlets. Most are from 2019.

Chloe Martinez is a poet and scholar of South Asian religions. She is the author of Corner Shrine (Backbone Press, 2020), which won the 2019 Backbone Press Chapbook Competition, and Ten Thousand Selves (The Word Works, forthcoming 2021). Her poems appear or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Waxwing, The Common, and elsewhere. She teaches at Claremont McKenna College.

FROM Volume 70, Number 2

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