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Josh Feit

@joshfeit.bsky.social
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Author of 2 indie-press poetry books (Shops Close Too Early & The Night of Electric Bikes) www.joshfeitpoetry.com. City planning columnist & cofounder (w/ @ericacbarnett.bsky.social) at publicola.com.

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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 16h
We're about to break some bike and scooter share records. My @publicola.bsky.social column has the news.
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Greater Seattle: Bike and Scooter Share Could Soon Lap 2025's Record-Setting Numbers - PubliCola
by Josh Feit 10.5 million by October > 10.5 million by December Seattle scooter- and bike-share is about to…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week, including that time in 1985 when my smash jangle band played at CBs.
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A 1985 CBGB ad; the Night Mayor; and Anne Sexton. I’m All Lost In, #155. This Week’s Obsessions and Comparisons in Six sentences. — Josh Feit's Poetry
A first-person bebop love story…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Just you wait. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Lots of people on socials hyping Night of the Living Dead anniversary today. What's cool about 1968 in film is that, from the other end of the $pectrum, Kubrick's 2001 also came out in '68 (April 3). The high- and low-brow standard bearers of sci-fi & horror released the very same year.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All Lost In... the onne thing they're obsessed with.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My weekly "Greater Seattle" column is up. I wish Wilson’s proposal did more for the bars and restaurants and coffeeshops that are already permitted, but increasingly struggling.
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Greater Seattle: Inclusionary Zoning, Part 2; Amazon as a Percentage of the Budget; Permitted, but Struggling - PubliCola
By Josh Feit Last week, I featured Seattle City Councilmember Dionne Foster in an item headlined “Inclusionary Zoning > No…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Last week, I had Councilmbember Foster saying Inclusionary Zoning > No Inclusionary Zoning. This week a new academic study says the opposite.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This week's obsessions in 6 elegant, run-on sentences.
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I’m All Lost In, #154 in Six Sentences: Toward Pioneer Square; six flats; and a list. Plus the Week in X>Y, including Vibes>Vibes. — Josh Feit's Poetry
I was reminded that vibes is short for the vibraphone as opposed to this decade’s relentlessly-overused word for atmosphere and mood…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's us at Idlewild. @inkandribbon.com
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Ink & Ribbon Press publishes my poem “Revolutionary Airport.” — Josh Feit's Poetry
Saarinen’s curves of flights and tulips…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My weekly "Greater Seattle" column (as in Councilmember Foster > Mayor Wilson) is up @publicola.bsky.social. (Thanks for editing while on vacation @ericacbarnett.bsky.social).
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Greater Seattle: Councilmember Foster Breaks the MHA Logjam - PubliCola
By Josh Feit Councilmember Dionne Foster > Mayor Katie Wilson You couldn’t have a clearer juxtaposition. Mayor Wilson tried to…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's good news about the press for once. But honestly. Most people don't know what "pool" coverage quite means. Such a navel gazing headline and lead. How about, major networks stop attending daily White House press briefings.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
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I’m All Lost In, #153: Rufus Wainwright’s Art Teacher; downtown Redmond’s art walk; and insomnia is political in Paris. Plus the Week in X>Y. — Josh Feit's Poetry
The physics of how her touch-design flowers and Strawberry-Alarm-Clock optical illusions work
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why does Trump's every move about the Kennedy Center make NYT headlines, whereas when thousands of people come out to the the Kennedy Center to protest him, it doesn't warrant a story.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
My poem "Revolutionary Airport" was shortlisted for the LemonLight Prize from @inkandribbon.com. Here's a reel of me reading it. www.instagram.com/reels/DdeiH4...
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Josh Feit on Instagram: "Reading my poem "Revolutionary Airport," which was shortlisted for the LemonLight Prize from Ink & Ribbon Press. https://inkandribbon.org/?srsltid=AU7gw4Xeoigd65PCjv2ayXncyL8h...
0 likes, 0 comments - city_hex on September 19, 2026: "Reading my poem "Revolutionary Airport," which was shortlisted for the LemonLight Prize from Ink & Ribbon Press. https://inkandribbon.org/?srslti...
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sabalenka wasn't supposed to make the final in the first place. And now everyone's hating on her for losing it in three sets.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm All Lost In.. the 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS Week.
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I’m All Lost In, #152: An economic study; a glass of sherry; and a mid-20th century novel. Plus the Week in X>Y. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Hopefully their montages of human history will include footage showing the night in the fall of 2026 when a beacon of light and a gathering of cheering thousands radiated from the edge of New York Cit...
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Seattle.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
My weekly PubliCola column is up.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I updated the column w/ an FYI for the Seattle Times FYI guy: People "living alone" don't live alone. We’re living in multifamily buildings with plenty of other people. It's called density. And it's better for the environment and for lowering rents.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I updated my column w/ an FYI for the Seattle Times FYI guy: People "living alone" don't live alone. We’re living in multifamily buildings with plenty of other people. It's called density. And it's better for the environment and for lowering rents.
publicola.com
Greater Seattle: Late Press Conferences, On-Time Buses, Selfish Housing - PubliCola
By Josh Feit Five and a half hours > A half hour As they spin headlines to make Mayor Katie…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This week's Greater Seattle column is up @publicola.bsky.social
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The first performer, Cole Pulice, turned their saxophone into a synthesizer, allowing them to wrap notes around one another in chromatic helixes.
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I’m All Lost In, #151: White T-shirts from Nordstrom; a lost photo; and Qinwen comes back. Plus the Week in X>Y. — Josh Feit's Poetry
No Lady Gaga, only Steinem watching us.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One problem with the grungy vegan bars I gravitate to is that they gleefully welcome dogs.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
She will beat Aryna. Shnaider wont.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
THE ZONES OF ARCH ANGELS SURROUND THE WHOLE SOLAR SYSTEM, LIKE THE SPIRIT SPHERES SURROUND EACH AND EVERY PLANET www.joshfeitpoetry.com/blog/dx2t3vf...
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The 3 Things I'm Obsessing about THIS week. The panoramic intersection at Sutphin-Archer is action-packed with evening anticipation.
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I’m All Lost in, #150: A new sweater; a fried mantou bun; and Court 17 at the Qualies. Plus the Week in X>Y. — Josh Feit's Poetry
The panoramic intersection at Sutphin-Archer is action-packed with evening anticipation.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thanks to her good showing against Coco Gauff this week, you might be interested to know I wrote a poem about Zeynep Sönmez earlier this year after she helped a fainting ball kid at the Australian Open. It was published by Half and One this summer. halfandone.com/the-ball-kid...
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The Ball Kid Faints - Half and One
The sun is infamous
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This week's installment of Greater Seattle. A bummer Katie Wilson analogy, but also progressive Councilmember Foster > Joni Mitchell.
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Greater Seattle: Katie Wilson is to Jimmy Carter as Zohran Mamdani is to Barack Obama - PubliCola
By Josh Feit First of all, a quick followup to an item from a couple of weeks ago, when I…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
My weekly Greater Seattle column is up @publicola.bsky.social
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Admittedly, the parking lots they’re supporting are mostly metaphorical, but perfectly, in this story, the parking lot was real.
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I’m All Lost In, #149: Watching Olivia Wilde’s The Invite; learning the Chantels’ “Maybe;” and reading Bryan Washington’s Palaver. Plus the Week in X>Y, including misinterpreting Joni Mitchell. — Josh...
I don’t know if this is about the sad bar on my black or more about me.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
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I’m All Lost In, #149: Watching Olivia Wilde’s The Invite; learning the Chantels’ “Maybe;” and reading Bryan Washington’s Palaver. Plus the Week in X>Y, including misinterpreting Joni Mitchell. — Josh...
I don’t know if this is about the sad bar on my black or more about me.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The sexism (condescension) is embarrassing. They're going after Mandami, but, hmmm, it's not sticking.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I love this headline (and story) because unwitting Boomer and Xer NIMBYs routinely (at least in Seattle) quote the Joni Mitchell refrain as a proud anti-development POV.
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Landmarks Panel Approves Designs to Replace Parking Lot With High Rises
Local groups in the NoHo neighborhood of Manhattan opposed the plan, saying designs for two apartment buildings did not reflect the neighborhood’s historical character.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Guys. If both Coco & Kostyuk are on, tomorrow's showdown could be the match of 2026.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
My new weekly PubliCola column, Greater Seattle (as in "Trump’s Case Against U.S. Olympian David Hearn for Vandalizing the Reflecting Pool > North Seattle Couple’s Case for Recalling Katie Wilson") comes out on Mondays.
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Greater Seattle: Junk Fees, Recalling Wilson, and Ron Davis' Post-Election Fixation - PubliCola
By Josh Feit 8 > 75 Seventy-five dollars was the cost of an unfair “notice fee” that then-PubliCola freelancer Katie…
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PubliCola @publicola.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Greater Seattle: Junk Fees, Recalling Wilson, and Ron Davis' Post-Election Fixation The latest column from @joshfeit.bsky.social:
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Greater Seattle: Junk Fees, Recalling Wilson, and Ron Davis' Post-Election Fixation - PubliCola
By Josh Feit 8 > 75 Seventy-five dollars was the cost of an unfair “notice fee” that then-PubliCola freelancer Katie…
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Greater Seattle: Junk Fees, Recalling Wilson, and Ron Davis' Post-Election Fixation The latest column from @joshfeit.bsky.social:
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Greater Seattle: Junk Fees, Recalling Wilson, and Ron Davis' Post-Election Fixation - PubliCola
By Josh Feit 8 > 75 Seventy-five dollars was the cost of an unfair “notice fee” that then-PubliCola freelancer Katie…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Taking light rail across I-90 is especially necessary if you’re traveling from downtown Seattle. Otherwise, by car, you have to take I-5 to get to I-90, a route that should be included on the Odyssey’s travel warnings alongside whirlpools and sea monsters.
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I’m All Lost In, #148: Girl group royalty; DIY folk; and jet-age architecture. Plus the Week in X>Y, including light rail to Bellevue. — Josh Feit's Poetry
In the case of the Bronx-based Chantels…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
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I’m All Lost In, #148: Girl group royalty; DIY folk; and jet-age architecture. Plus the Week in X>Y, including light rail to Bellevue. — Josh Feit's Poetry
In the case of the Bronx-based Chantels…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Chantels first album We are the Chantels (1958) features non-stop doo-wop showstoppers written by Smith (pictured far right).
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Arlene Smith obituary
Singer with one of the first ‘girl groups’, the Chantels, whose 1950s hit Maybe sold more than a million copies
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Greater Seattle... as in: Mayor Wilson > Theories of Mayor Wilson’s Demise. Here's my second installment of this new PubliCola column.
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Greater Seattle: Primary Election Edition - PubliCola
By Josh Feit Mayor Wilson > Theories of Mayor Wilson’s Demise As the mainstream media and the Seattle Times pounce…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
No Bagels in My Apartment > Bagels in My Apartment: I don’t know if business is tanking at Rubinstein’s (I wouldn’t be surprised given how it seems like we’re in the prologue to Kristallnacht right now), but I did end up with five bags of free bagels from their 15th Ave. shop this week.
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I’m All Lost In, #147: Modular Seattle in the park; an IKEA success story; and “A Message to You Rudy.” Plus the Week in X>Y, including Style > Substance. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Seance aesthetics…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week.
joshfeitpoetry.com
I’m All Lost In, #147: Modular Seattle in the park; an IKEA success story; and “A Message to You Rudy.” Plus the Week in X>Y, including Style > Substance. — Josh Feit's Poetry
Seance aesthetics…
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Been filing my YIMBY column at PubliCola on and off for a while now publicola.com/category/may... ... but the plan is to do the this X>Y roundup much more regularly.
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Maybe Metropolis Archives - PubliCola
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Someone check the speed gun on ECB's serve. Ace!
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Spicy debut" ....
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Erica C. Barnett @ericacbarnett.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Let me just say, that's why public radio matters, and it's why anyone can put up a shingle now and call themselves a news person, an influencer and put out news." This, again, is from @kuow.org's politics editor.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
While still not as convincing as the queues of summers past, the lines have finally formed on the sidewalk.
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I’m All Lost In, #146: Vegan coconut ice cream; vegan sesame-seed coffee; and an Adidas jacket. Plus the Week in X>Y, including Erica scoops the Seattle Times again. — Josh Feit's Poetry
I stand before you without an aching left arm for the first time all summer.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The 3 things I'm obsessing about THIS week. Plus the the Week in X>Y, including @ericacbarnett.bsky.social > the Seattle Times at covering city hall.
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I’m All Lost In, #146: Vegan coconut ice cream; vegan sesame-seed coffee; and an Adidas jacket. Plus the Week in X>Y, including Erica scoops the Seattle Times again. — Josh Feit's Poetry
I stand before you without an aching left arm for the first time all summer.
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Josh Feit @joshfeit.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
I haven't played tennis in four weeks. Don't rain at 10 o'clock. Don't rain at 10 o'clock.
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