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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 11h

yes and out now!!

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 11h

ooh! thanks for the tip!

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 1d

(Jacketed paperback. Illustration by Vladimir Ilievski, design by Stephen Brayda.)

Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 1d

Looking for a novel that feels as good in your hands as it does in your heart? Here's a very special Japanese-paperback-inspired look for this lovely read about a taxi ride to change your life tr @tnieda.bsky.social
#pubnews #worldliterature #booksky #japanesefiction
@harperonebooks.bsky.social

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 2d

I love it too.

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 5d

Swoon. We can all please Jane by carrying on her work and her loving engagement.

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 6d

Register for translator and poet Sholeh Wolpé's Attar seminar series (10/9, 10/16, 10/23)with the Academy of American Poets! #poetrysky #poets #literarytranslation

poets.org/academy-amer...

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 7d

Little me was so grateful to find Jane's work when we were sent to the library to choose idols for worship, she hasn't left my side since.

eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 7d

I am so sorry to hear the news.

Jane Goodall has passed away, October 1, 2025. She just spoke in Taipei in June: "Young people are the future...we've been stealing their future for a very long time..So we've got to spend time with them and help them understand [that there] is a way forward."

photo of Jane Goodall in Taipei in a public lecture, a stuffed animal monkey holding a banana is on the desk beside her

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 7d

"do something nice for your nervous system, revisit that Sarah Louise album that felt so close to your spine..."

She offered a beautiful guitar learning suggestion that has stayed with me: "play as slow as possible, learn it, then speed up"

sarahlouise.bandcamp.com/album/earth-...

Earth Bow, by Sarah Louise

9 track album

sarahlouise.bandcamp.com

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 8d

thanks for contributing! your collages have been making our readers swoon...

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 9d

The Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series is spotlighting translations take a breath with this one:

“disagreement” by Venezuelan poet María Auxiliadora Álvarez, translated from Spanish by Andrés Fernández

poets.org/poem/disagre...

disagreement

(the deafening / sound / of the sea / comes / between / us both)

poets.org

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 14d

First review a 🌟 for Laura Restrepo's "sweeping and lyrical" SONG OF ANCIENT LOVERS (tr Caro De Robertis) @publisherswkly.bsky.social - out Dec 31! I've been obsessed with Restrepo for 20+ years and her books have helped pave my career path... #booksky #literarytranslation #editorsandediting

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 21d

Equanimity can help us. Margaret Cullen introduces this vital skill @greatergoodmag.bsky.social : greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Can You Stay Calm in a Time of Outrage?

The world doesn’t need more anger, however righteous. It needs people who can hold on to moral clarity and stay true to their values.

greatergood.berkeley.edu

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 21d

Underestimate Washington - and Seattle - as a hub of brilliant authorial activity at your own peril. Congrats to @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social on the Washington Book Award for Nonfiction for BE A REVOLUTION, read & get inspired by activism all around us. Cheers!! #booksky #pubnews

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 26d

I love this book so much

Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 27d

NY job opportunity to work with the illustrious Academy of American Poets as Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications.
#booksky #publishing #poetry
poets.org/academy-amer...

Job Openings

Senior Manager of

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · 27d

This is tonight - bring your questions and your feelings!

Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 19

What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation
elliottbaybook.com/events/47732

Marian Schwartz w/ Gabriella Page-Fort | Elliott Bay Book Company

Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congratulations!!

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 30

So my love of chants is rooted in the multiculti moment of my united colors of Benetton 90s upbringing

Lili Saintcrow @lilithsaintcrow.com · Aug 29

"But lo and behold, a few leaves of parchment stuck in the back happened to contain pieces of early sixteenth-century music, or rather chant, with both text and notation, a vanishingly rare sort of artifact of medieval monastic life."

Hear the Long-Lost Chants of English Monks, Revived for the First Time in 500 Years

Listening to music, especially live music, can be a religious experience. These days, most of us say that figuratively, but for medieval monks, it was the literal truth.

www.openculture.com

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 30

It’s really the best newsletter. No one sends me off toward more deeper readings.

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 28

Great @wwborders.bsky.social issue just landed ft a juicy review of Shelley Fairweather-Vega's translation of We Computers by Hamid Ismailov AND Kim Bok Hui's God of Petals tr @daybreakjung.bsky.social "I wash my worn-out towels to clean up God’s vomit and clean up all the stuff all over the place."

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 26

Some two years ago, poet/translator Sholeh Wolpe and her agent Anna Gosh pitched me on a gifty introduction to Attar's spiritual poetry, translated by someone who actually knows Persian (unlike the beloved Coleman Barks Rumi translations) and today that gift is ready for you:

If these pages pointed you to the Path,
stripped the veil from your eyes,
or comforted your spirit,
then be generous to this poet in your thoughts.
(Poem printed on book page, book held in hand)

Cover of hardcover book with gold foil accents and a cloth binding with this text on the front: The Invisible Sun: A Guide for the Soul from Rumi's Master by Attar, collected, edited, and translated by Sholeh Wolpe, published by HarperOne.

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 25

I finished I Who Have Never Known Men a full week before book club and I simply can’t wait to discuss. Thoughts? @booksky @translation

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 19

What's a dissident to do? Hoping @mbs51.bsky.social can tell me Sept 11 at Elliott Bay, discussing her translation of Russian journalist and human rights activist Alexander Podrabinek's prison diary. #seattlebookevents #booktok #literatureintranslation
elliottbaybook.com/events/47732

Marian Schwartz w/ Gabriella Page-Fort | Elliott Bay Book Company

Full-service, general bookstore operating since 1973. Frequent author events, cafe, over 150,000 titles

elliottbaybook.com

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Gabriella Page-Fort @pagefort.bsky.social · Aug 18

As the headlines blindfold us and spin us around…

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