Winning Poets, Writers, and Books
Congratulations to the winners of the Maningning Miclat Poetry Awards handed out last Thursday: Mikael de Lara Co for the English Division, Enrique Villasis for the Filipino and Pan Weili for the Chinese.
Our friend Kael Co, an Ateneo graduate, Fellow at the National Writers Workshop in Dumaguete, and member of the late lamented (hopefully resurrected) Los Chupacabraz band, continues to reap awards for his excellent poetry in both English and Filipino.
He also won the Miclat Poetry Grand Prize for English the last time out, in 2009, as the contest alternates annually between poetry and painting (to honor multi-genre artist Maningning Miclat). So it was a successful title defense for him, heh heh. A hat trick he can’t accomplish, however, as he will be over the age limit of 28 the next time out. Which is just as well, to make way for younger poets.
