About
"There is an intimacy in these poems that cannot be taught." - Davidson Foundation Fellowship Selection Committee
"Your poems make me feel like I can fight someone" - a friend
"Your poems make me feel like I can fight someone" - a friend
Irene Vázquez is a sophomore at Yale, where she serves as the co-president of WORD: Performance Poetry at Yale as well as an associate editor for Broad Recognition.
She can often be found yelling about politics/witnessing/diaspora. She hopes that poetry can serve as a method for imagining a brighter future that as of yet, resists name. She is undertaking this work as a Bouchet Fellow at Yale; her project seeks to understand how French Caribbean poetics can provide a model for global liberation.
Irene is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer and a 2017 Davidson Fellow in Literature for her project "Ebb and Flow: Translating Lives in Transition."
When she's not writing, she likes drinking coffee, watching Brooklyn 99, and pointing out the differences between her Yale experience and that of Rory Gilmore.
She can often be found yelling about politics/witnessing/diaspora. She hopes that poetry can serve as a method for imagining a brighter future that as of yet, resists name. She is undertaking this work as a Bouchet Fellow at Yale; her project seeks to understand how French Caribbean poetics can provide a model for global liberation.
Irene is a Pushcart Prize nominated writer and a 2017 Davidson Fellow in Literature for her project "Ebb and Flow: Translating Lives in Transition."
When she's not writing, she likes drinking coffee, watching Brooklyn 99, and pointing out the differences between her Yale experience and that of Rory Gilmore.
Selected Awards and Commendations
- Davidson Fellow (Literature), 2017
- The Davidson Fellows Scholarship recognizes young people under the age of 18 who have completed an original, significant piece of work with the potential to make a positive contribution to society
- Finalist, Houston Youth Poet Laureate, 2016
- Finalist, Where Are You Poet Chapbook Contest, 2016
- Maddy Summer Artist Award, Creative Writing, 2016
- First Place, Writers in the Schools Non-fiction Story Slam, 2016
- Runner Up, Glass Mountain Prose and Poetry Contest, 2016
- Honorable Mention, Princeton High School Poetry Contest, 2016
- Finalist, Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, Hollins University, 2015
- First Place Gold Circle Award, Columbia Scholastic Press Association, 2015
- Nominated for Pushcart Prize, 2015
- Nominated by Gravel Magazine
- Honorable Mention, Nancy Thorp Poetry Contest, Hollins University, 2014
