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Join us as we welcome Isabel Neal to the store for an event in celebration of her new collection Thrown Voice. The 120th winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize celebrates the voice felt twice—once in the body, once in the world.

Isabel Neal’s prizewinning volume bears with confidence its central tensions between beauty and the unseen, contact and the mysterious, arrival and undoing. Both tender and forceful in their curiosity, these poems are vocally sharp, strange, freely moving and then utterly still. Thrown Voice travels along the poet’s image-worlds and beloved waterways in wholly unexpected ways: “A thaw thunders loose / Just one mink darkens the ice / A live ampersand.”

Isabel Neal is the author of Thrown Voice, which won the 2025 Yale Younger Poets Prize, selected by Rae Armantrout. Her writing appears in The Yale Review, Waxwing, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day series, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Michigan, and lives in Maine.