You may know Josh Feit as the co-founder of the Seattle independent news site PubliCola, or, before that, as the longtime news editor at the Stranger, but in recent years, while working as a speechwriter at the Mayor’s Office and now at Sound Transit, he has been writing poems at a mad clip. His poems, full of giddy and sad urbanism, have been published in Spillway, Vallum, the Halcyone Literary Review, CircleShow, and other journals, and now are appearing in his first published collection, Shops Close Too Early, from Cathexis Northwest Press. He’ll be traveling—via public transport and/or e-bike—from the dense and tree-dappled neighborhood of Capitol Hill to celebrate his new book with us on Phinney Ridge. Please join us!