{"id":16972,"date":"2024-06-20T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T22:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/?p=16972"},"modified":"2024-06-20T19:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T00:31:20","slug":"life-in-abcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/2024\/06\/20\/life-in-abcs\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in ABCs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>Life in ABCs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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; &amp; x-claims YOLO zealously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>__________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat<\/strong> is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet and essayist. She\u2019s the author of&nbsp;<em>Em(body)ment of Wonder<\/em>&nbsp;(Raine Publishing, 2021),&nbsp;<em>It Wasn\u2019t a Dream<\/em>&nbsp;(Fahmidan Publishing &amp; Co., 2022), and&nbsp;<em>CARE INSTRUCTIONS<\/em>&nbsp;(Finishing Line Press, 2024). Her writing appears in&nbsp;<em>The Orange County Register<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Button Poetry<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Honey Literary<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>The Cincinnati Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>West Trestle Review<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Inlandia<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Midway Journal<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>diaCritics<\/em>, and elsewhere. She has received literary support from <em>Kenyon Review<\/em> Writers Workshop, VONA, GrubStreet\u2019s BWOC Literary Support, Gasher, and The Highlights Foundation. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @madamewritelyso. Also, find her work at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tanyasangpun.com\/creative-writing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/tanyasangpun.com\/creative-writing\/<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>__________<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2024\/01\/boudin-logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn more about submitting your work to&nbsp;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/boudin-submissions\/\">Boudin<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;or applying to McNeese State University\u2019s Creative Writing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/mfa-application-submissions\/\">MFA program<\/a>, please visit Submissions for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in ABCs Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat __________ 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; &amp; x-claims YOLO zealously. __________ Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet and essayist. She\u2019s the author of&nbsp;Em(body)ment of Wonder&nbsp;(Raine Publishing, 2021),&nbsp;It Wasn\u2019t a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[75,209],"class_list":["post-16972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-one-sentence-stories","tag-boudin","tag-onesentencestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16972"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17060,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16972\/revisions\/17060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mcneese.edu\/thereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}