Jabari Asim

About Jabari Asim

Jabari Asim is a literary fiction author playwright, poet, and Emerson College professor of publishing, literature, and writing. In an unexpected move, Jabari Asim left college a semester before he would graduate, as he would later describe himself in an interview with Poynter Institute’s Emily Christensen as clueless, defiant, and arrogant. Ironically, he had always been a man that was a huge advocate of city living and often praised people that remained in their communities and were role models. Ultimately, his optimism would seem to him to be very naive and misguided. He would come to believe that it would need a lot of infusion of skilled and dedicated African Americans to make any difference in the Black neighborhoods. Jabari Asim worked for the “St. Louis Post Dispatch” as an arts ed