Mad Libs Sonnet: Portrait of my Father

Tanya Sangpun Thamkruphat is a Thai-Vietnamese American poet and essayist. She is the author of the poetry chapbooks, Em(body)ment of Wonder (Raine Publishing, 2021) and It Wasn’t a Dream (Fahmidan Publishing & Co., 2022). Her poetry appears in Button Poetry, Honey Literary, The Cincinnati Review, and elsewhere. She's a 2023 Kenyon Review alum. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @madamewritelyso.