Life in ABCs

Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat

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A blossom-eyed child, doled elephantine fumbles, growls harrumphs in jest; keeps loving magnanimously; noshes (obviously); pooh-poohs quotidian rabble-rousers; somersaults terrifically; understands vileness weaponizes; & x-claims YOLO zealously.

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Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet and essayist. She’s the author of Em(body)ment of Wonder (Raine Publishing, 2021), It Wasn’t a Dream (Fahmidan Publishing & Co., 2022), and CARE INSTRUCTIONS (Finishing Line Press, 2024). Her writing appears in The Orange County Register, Button Poetry, Honey Literary, The Cincinnati Review, West Trestle Review, Inlandia, Midway Journal, diaCritics, and elsewhere. She has received literary support from Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, VONA, GrubStreet’s BWOC Literary Support, Gasher, and The Highlights Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @madamewritelyso. Also, find her work at https://tanyasangpun.com/creative-writing/. 

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