Miguel Angel Rosario was born in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, but grew up in the housing project of Bronx, New York. Growing up he faced many obstacles which could have hindered his success and dreams. But with the love and motivation of his family and a strong un-daunted will to achieve success, he grew to be very intuitive and learned how to overcome the many obstacles and challenges that society presented. Growing up Miguel knew that education was his outlet and ticket to living a better and positive life filled with options and opportunities. Although he took risk in the streets, he kept his studies as his number one priority. His ambition, will and determination to educate and better himself was driven and fueled by many of the negative influences in his personal life experience and society. His determination to break the cycle of failure that he was so used to seeing further encouraged him to achieve his goals and become a positive role model to others. Miguel graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2006 with honors, obtaining bachelor’s degrees in both Architecture and Business Administration within a 5 year period. He is now practicing and working as an architect, a profession which he has a deep passion, employed at a very well-recognized firm called TPG Architecture. He is motivated by green, environmentally friendly, and energy efficient architecture and is currently merited with the title of LEED Green Associate. In addition to his career in architecture, he also enjoys doing one of his many creative talents – writing poetry. Through his poetry one can gain insight of the methodology of the streets and life as it is perceived from within society and its struggling class. Touching on many issues ranging from politics, love, family, society, etc, Miguel commingles his own personal experiences with his creative ability to poetically express himself in a way that draws the reader in, provoking emotional responses, keeping them intrigued, entertained, inspired and informed. As a poet he seeks to touch the lives of many with his wisdom, inspiration and education and wishes to release his book of poems sometime in the future. He also has a passion for writing poetry and published his first book of poems entitled My Life, Your Thoughts, Our Emotions, on December 18th, 2009.

(2010)