Chloe Martinez
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.
Reading List
Motherhood: A Map
You are here: abject, bereft, clear (all-seeing, also see-through); disheveled. Euphoric, enervated, flushed, faint, fierce, and also, generous, gushing milk and patience, goddess-like, even while grieving—what?—your good, distant self. Heavy, heaving. Helper; holder of hands or heads. You’ll appear, to some idiots, indignant, indigent, icky. You’ll ignore cries, which is not to say you won’t […]
Study Finds
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 […]
Mandala of the Pile of Papers on the Dining Room Table
Star of pain in your neck: turn it side to side, it glows in the dark all the same. Your poster of the Golden Temple keeps falling down over your desk, and the latest baby announcement watches you severely from the top of the pile, send the gift already, says the baby, so new it […]