Writers Cribs! Jabari Asim

Join us for a conversation and short tour with Jabari Asim. Presented in partnership with the Ivy Bookshop.

In Stop and Frisk, Jabari Asim ruthlessly interrogates entrenched injustice and its insidious echoes. Part rap sheet, part concept album, Asim lays down tracks that add conviction to our collective broken record: What could be more American than pretending truths were self-evident when they seldom were? Drawing defiant inspiration from the news and the Blues, these poems arrest our attention and burn grooves into us. These starkly revelatory poems expose the dark heart of our nation and call for a reckoning-the only way out before everything breaks / into hurt, noise, and ever after.

Jabari Asim is the acclaimed author of "A Taste Of Honey" and "Only The Strong," both works of fiction, as well as the highly praised "The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, And Why." His children's books include "Whose Toes Are Those," "Whose Knees Are These," "Fifty Cents And A Dream," and "Preaching To The Chickens." He is the former editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, a preeminent journal of politics, ideas and culture published by the NAACP and founded by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1910.
He is an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson College.

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