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JABARI ASIM

Biography

Jabari Asim is book editor for the Washington Post. He is an assistant editor of Drumvoices Revue, a journal published by Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. He is founding editor of EYEBALL, a literary arts journal that was awarded a Gregory Kolovakos Seed Grant. His poetry has appeared in Black American Literature Forum, Obsidian II, Painted Bride Quarterly, Catalyst and Shooting Star Review, among others. His plays include "Caribbean Beat," produced by Muny Student Theatre Project; "Peace, Dog," produced by The New Theatre; "Believe I'll Testify," produced by Gettys Productions; and "New Blood Symphony" and "Didn't It Rain," both staged by Pamoja Theatre Workshop. His fiction and poetry are both included in In The Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writing. In 1995, he became the arts writer for the new Post-Dispatch entertainment magazine Get Out, and his reviews have appeared in various publications, including The Hungry Mind Review and Salon magazine.