Shops Close Too Early

A former Seattle Journalist, Josh Feit is currently the speechwriter for Seattle's regional mass transit agency. His first poetry collection, Shops Close Too Early (Cathexis NW Press), was published in 2022. His poetry has also been published in Spillway, Vallum, the Halcyone Literary Review, and Change Seven, among other journals. He was a finalist for the 2021 Wolfson Chapbook Poetry Prize and the 2019 Lily Poetry Prize. He was shortlisted for the 2020 Vallum Award for Poetry and won Honorable Mention. You can find him online at www.joshfeitpoetry.com. He lives in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, which has some of the deepest tree canopy in the city, alongside some of Seattle's densest housing. You have it backwards, NIMBYs.