by Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro
Micaela Camacho-Tenreiro is a Venezuelan-American poet, dancer, and troublemaker. A 2025 CantoMundo fellow and Best of the Net nominee, their work has been published in American Poetry Review, La Revista Bilingüe, and elsewhere; featured by Brooklyn Poets and ONLY POEMS, and commissioned by the Center for Brooklyn History and the Feminist Bird Club of Jersey City. They hold a B.A. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University and received a 2025 Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
[Note: This audio is from Micaela’s first public reading of the poem, in February of 2025, which they recorded and sent to the person to whom the piece is addressed.]