Mikael was born on the second day of April in the year 1983, in Makati City. He loves basketball and is currently hooked in the Fantasy League. He graduated grade school in Lourdes College, high school in Philippine Science High School, and college at the Ateneo de Manila University with a degree in BS Environmental Science.
Mikael has bee writing primarily in Filipino since his college days. He has received recognition for his poetry, including print space in the Philippines Free Press, Sunday Inquirer Magazine, Aklat Likhaan, Dapitan, Tomas, Matanglawin, Pilosopo Tasyo, and Heights. He has also published fiction and non-fiction in Heights, Matanglawin and Manila Bulletin.
Kael has served as editor and staffer of Heights, and has experience in editing, teaching and translating. He plays lead guitar for the new wave/punk/blues band Los Chupacabras, and is lead vocalist for Gapos, a progressive rock/jazz/blues band with a social realist bent.
Hands For A Fistful Of Sand is one of Mikael Co's greatest works and it would be safe to say that it is one of his contribution to society. This form of art gives rise to the new age of writing. The well thought of images and underlying messages written in this collection are helpful in influencing and synthesizing a new breed of writing and genre in our culture. Mikael Co and Hands For A Fistful Of Sand and his other works are definitely something us Filipinos should be proud of.
- Hands for a Fistful of Sand
Leave O leave [me] to my sorrows
Here Ill sit and fade away
Till Im nothing but a spirit
And I lose this form of clay
Here are some of his works:
- Leaves
- Family Life
- Formula
- Silencce
- Song
- Cryptic
- Story
- Drunnken Conversation with Nobel Laureate
- Job
- Proposal
sources: http://en.wikipilipinas.org/index.php/Mikael_Co
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