Podcast appearances and mentions of Jabari Asim

This week, acclaimed writers Renée Watson and Jabari Asim talk about Watson's novel, skin & bones, as well as writing Black history and moving from writing for children to adults. This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival. AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOME About skin & bones: [...]

This week, acclaimed writers Renée Watson and Jabari Asim talk about Watson's novel, skin & bones, as well as writing Black history and moving from writing for children to adults. This conversation originally took place May 19, 2024 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival.AWM PODCAST NETWORK HOMEAbout skin & bones:From the acclaimed #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a soulful and lyrical novel exploring sisterhood, motherhood, faith, love, and ultimately what gets passed down from one generation to the next.At 40, Lena Baker is at a steady and stable moment in life—between wine nights with her two best friends and her wedding just weeks away, she's happy in love and in friendship until a confession on her wedding day shifts her world.Unmoored and grieving a major loss, Lena finds herself trying to teach her daughter self-love while struggling to do so herself. Lena questions everything she's learned about dating, friendship, and motherhood, and through it all, she works tirelessly to bring the oft-forgotten Black history of Oregon to the masses, sidestepping her well-meaning co-workers that don't understand that their good intentions are often offensive and hurtful.Through Watson's poetic voice, skin & bones is a stirring exploration of who society makes space for and is ultimately a story of heartbreak and healing.RENÉE WATSON is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Over the past decade she has authored fifteen young adult books, which have collectively sold more than a million copies. She received a Coretta Scott King Award and a Newbery Honor for Piecing Me Together and high praise for 1619 Project: Born on the Water. Watson is on the Council of Writers for the National Writing Project and is a member of the Academy of American Poets' Education Advisory Council. She is also a writer-in-residence at The Solstice Low-Residency MFA Creative Writing Program. Renée splits her time between New York City and Portland, Oregon.JABARI ASIM is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Emerson College, where he is also the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice. His nonfiction books include The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why; What Obama Means: For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future; Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life; and We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival. His books for children include Whose Toes Are Those? and Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis. His works of fiction include A Taste of Honey, Only the Strong, and Yonder.

WORDS OF HOPEOne of the moving elements of a memorial service is the video montage of the person who has joined the Great Cloud of Witnesses. As images emerge, one after another, you think, “There's that smile, that casual slouch, that goofiness or that serious gaze, those hands of service.” And it tugs at your heart that this special person won't be a part of your life anymore. Not in the same way. A group of us from Coat of Colours has been inspired while working to honor the life of Rep. John Lewis for Black History Month. As we scoured the internet for material, I was captured by the images of his life and justice-seeking service, some of which are etched in our national consciousness. So, this morning I highlight a few images.  ·      The children's book Preaching to the Chickens by Jabari Asim and beautifully illustrated by EB Lewis. Based on Lewis' early life on his family's working farm in southern Alabama, the story and pictures show Lewis' penchant for sharing the good news with his creature kin. One image, where John is scattering corn before the flock, recalls the parable of the sower and the seed.  Indeed God's expansive love and justice are embodied in this civil rights hero. https://www.themarginalian.org/2016/12/05/preaching-to-the-chickens-john-lewis/ ·      The depiction of the Bloody Sunday beating March 7, 1965. The body of John Lewis crumpled on the ground, hands trying to shield his head after a brutal beating by an Alabama State trooper during the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery is iconic in its hold on our historic memory. Lewis said that he thought he would die during that assault, but he deferred going to the hospital long enough to make an appeal to President Lyndon B. Johnson to send the National Guard to protect the marchers. These images turned the tide of the civil rights movement, paving the way for the Voting Rights Act. Commemorative marches across the Edmund Pettis Bridge have been held through the years under both Republican and Democratic presidents. After Lewis' death a horse-drawn carriage ferried his body across in solemn dignity.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XST4lV7HnO8  Lewis' activism was extensive. He advocated and protested not only for Voting Rights, but for immigration rights, expanded health care and LGBTQAI+ issues, seeing in the arguments against us the same kind of fear-mongering used in discriminating against people of color. He was arrested 45 times. In addition, late in his career, he participated in a sit in on the floor of the House when Republican leadership blocked bringing common sense gun rights legislation to a vote.  ·      Two moving and poignant images feature former President Obama. One shows the Medal of Freedom being conferred on the “conscience of the Congress” in 2011. The other depicts the embrace of the two men. Lewis was deeply moved that America had finally elected an African American of Obama's stature as president. Obama credited Lewis' unwavering dedication to justice with opening the gates for his election. “It was because of you, John,” he said.  In his final opinion piece, published shortly before his death, John Lewis lauds the work of the Black Lives Matter movement and urges us to continue carrying the torch for justice and to reclaim the soul of America.  If you too are inspired by the life of this courageous saint, join Coat of Colours on zoom for a discussion of “Good Trouble” Saturday, February 10 from 3-5 CT. (Instructions for registering to see the documentary free are here:  Support the show

V.V. Ganeshananthan is an author, poet, and journalist, whose works have been featured in Granta, The New York Times, and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She currently teaches in the MFA program at the University of Minnesota as a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English. Ganeshananthan also co-hosts the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast with Whitney Terrell, which explores writers and literature as mouthpieces for our cultural landscape. In this episode, we talk about Ganeshananthan's 18-year-long writing process for her latest novel. Ganeshananthan maps her journey with Brotherless Night, from “bluffing her way into” a novella class during her own time as an MFA student to her techniques for “fielding facial expressions” of doubt over the novel's completion. We revel in our common ground in the literary ecosystem, with Bloomsday poet Jabari Asim and Kate and Jessica's longtime mentor, Michael Knight, both appearing on the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast. While fondly recounting how MFA writers at the University of Minnesota experiment in “speed-dating” to “workshop the workshop,” Ganeshananthan reflects on the value of an MFA program that isn't genre-siloed and the living body of work that speaks to writers of color. Finally, while celebrating the release of Brotherless Night and asking what's next for Ganeshananthan's writing, we try to “remember how to start things.” Honorable MentionsBrotherless Night by V.V. GaneshananthanFiction/Non/FictionUniversity of Minnesota MFALetters to A Writer of Color edited by Deepa Anappara and Taymour SoomroCraft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues by Kavita Das photo credit Sophia Mayrhofer Audio by Bloomsday Literary in partnership with the official 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair

This week, author Jabari Asim discusses his novel Yonder with journalist Evan F. Moore. This conversation originally took place May 15, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival. About Yonder: The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers [...]

This week, author Jabari Asim discusses his novel Yonder with journalist Evan F. Moore. This conversation originally took place May 15, 2022 and was recorded live at the American Writers Festival. About Yonder: The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-19th century. They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths, Cato and William meet at Placid Hall, a plantation in an unspecified part of the American South. Subject to the whims of their tyrannical and eccentric captor, Cannonball Greene, they never know what harm may befall them: inhumane physical toil in the plantation's quarry by day, a beating by night, or the sale of a loved one at any moment. It's that cruel practice—the wanton destruction of love, the belief that Black people aren't even capable of loving—that hurts the most. It hurts the reserved and stubborn William, who finds himself falling for Margaret, a small but mighty woman with self-possession beyond her years. And it hurts Cato, whose first love, Iris, was sold off with no forewarning. He now finds solace in his hearty band of friends, including William, who is like a brother; Margaret; Little Zander; and Milton, a gifted artist. There is also Pandora, with thick braids and long limbs, whose beauty calls to him. Their relationships begin to fray when a visiting minister with a mysterious past starts to fill their heads with ideas about independence. He tells them that with freedom comes the right to choose the small things—when to dine, when to begin and end work—as well as the big things, such as whom and how to love. Do they follow the preacher and pursue the unknown? Confined in a landscape marked by deceit and uncertainty, who can they trust? In an elegant work of monumental imagination that will reorient how we think of the legacy of America's shameful past, Jabari Asim presents a beautiful, powerful, and elegiac novel that examines intimacy and longing in the quarters while asking a vital question: What would happen if an enslaved person risked everything for love? JABARI ASIM is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Emerson College, where he is also the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice. His nonfiction books include The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why; What Obama Means: For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future; Not Guilty: Twelve Black Men Speak Out on Law, Justice, and Life; and We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival. His books for children include Whose Toes Are Those? and Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis. His works of fiction include A Taste of Honey and Only the Strong. EVAN F. MOORE is the co-author of the book, Game Misconduct: Hockey's Toxic Culture and How to Fix It. His work over time, which consists of topics at the intersection of sports, race, and culture, is featured in Rolling Stone, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Magazine, The Athletic, Chicago Reader, and ESPN, among many others. His hockey writing was featured in the 2019 edition of The Best American Sports Writing book series. Evan is an adjunct journalism professor at DePaul University.

A review of "Yonder" by Jabari Asim, a fictional slave narrative that tells the story of a group of friends who seek love and share typical relationships that we might take for granted   Show notes are available at http://noirehistoir.com/blog/yonder-book-review.

(This conversation originally aired on February 22, 2022) Welcome to Midday.  Tom's guest today on this encore edition is Jabari Asim, one of the country's most imaginative and versatile writers, whose body of work encompasses fiction and non-fiction, poetry, plays and children's literature. He's a former editor of The Crisis , the journal of the NAACP, and the Washington Post, where he wrote a syndicated column. He is the author of acclaimed non-fiction books, including The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't and Why and We Can't Breathe:  On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival. He is the author of the novel, Only the Strong and a collection of short stories called A Taste of Honey. Professor Asim directs the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston, where he is also the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice. Jabari Asim's latest book is a historical novel set in 1852 in the American South. It chronicles the lives and loves, the longing for liberation, and the heartbreak and violence visited upon a community of enslaved people. This book is a profound masterpiece, peopled with a fascinating cast of characters who never lose touch with their dreams, in spite of unthinkable trauma. And one of the things that makes them so compelling is the fact that, as Tom observes at the top of the show, they never let the trauma of enslavement define them. It's called Yonder.  Jabari Asim joined us on our digital line in February from Boston.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week on Under the Radar with Callie Crossley: We're talking all things historical fiction in this special August edition of “Bookmarked: The Under the Radar Book Club.” We explore the world of books described as historical fiction — imagined stories based on real-life events and people, combining the best of history and novels. GUESTS: Jabari Asim is the author of seven books for adults including his latest, novel, “Yonder” a story of love and friendship set during the time of American enslavement. Asim has also written eleven books for children. He is an associate professor of writing, literature and publishing at Emerson College, and is also a playwright and a poet. The former Book Editor for the Washington Post, he is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship in nonfiction and a former member of the nonfiction panel for the National Book Foundation. Jabari Asim lives in Boston. Sabina Murray is the author of four books. Her latest the “The Human Zoo” follows a biracial woman navigating life between America and the Philippines under a President Duterte-like dictator. Murray teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and is also a screenwriter. Her second book, "The Caprices,” won the Penn/Faulkner award and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Sabina Murray lives in western Massachusetts. Jenny Tinghui Zhang is the author of “Four Treasures of the Sky,” the story of a young Chinese girl kidnapped and brought to America who ends up caught up in the targeted racism of the Chinese Exclusion Act. This is Zhang's first novel. Her stories have appeared in multiple literary publications including The Rumpus, and Calyx; her articles and essays have been published in HuffPost, Bustle and The Cut and she is a Kundiman Fiction Fellow. Jenny Tinghui Zhang lives in Austin, Texas.

BAPC × Jabari Asim Reggie & Akili speak to a beacon of versatility; Jabari Asim, about his wonderful novel, Yonder. Join The Fellowship—BAPC's Patreon Community https://www.patreon.com/booksarepopculture Follow BAPC on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/booksarepopculture Shop BAPC's Bookshop: https://www.bookshop.org/shop/booksarepopculture

My very Cool Friend Tara Nicole Whitaker is an INCREDIBLE illustrator and animator/director. She has illustrated books with such writers as Vanessa Williams, Jabari Asim, the team of Gabrielle Union and Dwayne Wade, and more! She's worked various jobs on shows like Family Guy, Gravity Falls, and most recently DIRECTED several episodes of the Disney+ series The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder (which is a phenomenal show, btw). Please enjoy this really fun interview where we talk about this, plus so much more, check out taranicolewhitaker.com, and follow her on IG at @taranicolewhitaker and on Twitter at @nicoledessine. And if you liked this episode (you did) you can head on over to Pateron.com/jeffmay and listen to uncensored episodes early along with patreon-exclusive content!

Episode 119 Notes and Links to Deesha Philyaw's Work        On Episode 119 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Deesha Philyaw, and the two discuss, among other topics, Deesha's love of and obsession with books as a kid, her reading books above her age level, the shakeup she received in reading the “singular” James Baldwin, outstanding and innovative and inspirational contemporary writers, her college and post-college years loving literature but aiming for corporate work, her compulsion to write full-time, and themes and parallels between contemporary life and events from her standout short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.        Deesha Philyaw's debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and the 2020 LA Times Book Prize: The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. The Secret Lives of Church Ladies focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church, and is being adapted for television by HBO Max with Tessa Thompson executive producing. Deesha is also a Kimbilio Fiction Fellow and will be the 2022-2023 John and Renée Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi.     Deesha Philyaw's Website   Renee Simms Reviews The Secret Lives of Church Ladies for Los Angeles Review of Books   Buy the Award-Winning The Secret Lives of Church Ladies   Nadia Owusu's Article for Slate: “The Secret Life of Deesha Philyaw”   Exciting News about the Upcoming HBO Series Based on the Story Collection!  At about 2:00, Sara Giorgi is shouted out as a strong editor, as Pete and Deesha talk about some fact-checking for her short story collection   At about 3:00, Deesha discusses early iterations of her short story collection   At about 4:35, Deesha responds to Pete's wondering about ideas of “finished” and “unfinished” stories   At about 6:25, Deesha details her love of books and having her family nurture her love of words   At about 10:00, Deesha recounts stories of “obsessing” over books and school in her childhood   At about 11:45, Deesha talks about a favorite writer, James Baldwin, and his multifaceted and intersectional legacies     At about 15:40, Pete wonders about Deesha's reading habits in her adolescent years    At about 19:00, Deesha talks about meaningful books, including The Autobiography of Malcolm X, that she read in high school and college, and about how writing for a career seemed so foreign to her   At about 21:50, Deesha references (very discreetly) the secret societies of Yale   At about 22:10, Deesha discusses her writing career developing slowly-starting as a hobby-in her late 20s, before accelerating with novel and short story writing   At about 23:45, Deesha mentions contemporary writers who inspire and challenge her, including Robert Jones, Jr., Maurice Ruffin, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Dantiel W. Moniz, and Dawnie Walton    At about 26:20, Deesha details how Robert Jones, Jr. has “revolutionized slave narratives”; Jabari Asim and Yonder is also mentioned as a book that does similar standout things   At about 29:35, Pete and Deesha discuss Deesha's varied interests and varied styles of writing, and how her life experiences have informed her writing; this includes how focusing on writing helps her “keep perspective”   At about 32:45, Deesha discusses seeds for the short story collection, including how the book draws upon many childhood experiences with church   At about 35:00, Deesha gives the secret about hearing stories as a kid, and cites Toni Morrison's  “Imagination as bound up in memory” in explaining inspirations   At about 36:50, Deesha discusses connections between the collection's epigraph and the stories themselves   At about 39:00, Deesha connects dots between two stories from the collection and Olivia's role in them   At about 40:00, Pete and Deesha discuss the female gaze that is centered in much of the collection, and Deesha talks about how women are held to different standards, including ideas of “respectable women”   At about 43:20, the two discuss the iconic “Peach Cobbler” and ideas of godliness    At about 45:00, Deesha responds to Pete's musings about the mother in “Peach Cobbler” by talking about ways of showing love   At about 48:00, Pete brings up ideas of pleasing others as a theme of “Peach Cobbler,” and Deesha expands on the ideas with regard to Olivia and wanting love and connection   At about 50:30, Pete mentions his connections to Eddie Levert with regard to his wedding, and Pete cites Kiese Laymon's wise words about many of Deesha's stories having “revelation rather than resolution”    At about 53:00, Deesha gives background on familial connections to the story “Eddie Levert is Coming”   At about 56:00, the two discuss themes and family from “Dear Sister”   At about 57:15, Deesha gives backstory on “Dear Sister” and the reality of the events   At about 59:10, the two discuss “Eula” and ideas of binaries with regards to ideas of sexual purity and Christianity/religiosity    At about 1:04:15, Pete compliments “Jael” and its intrigue and action   At about 1:05:40-1:11:00, Deesha reads a beautiful excerpt from “Snowfall”   At about 1:11:25, Pete asks about the upcoming HBO series based on her story collection-so exciting!   At about 1:13:15, Deesha gives her social media/contact information      You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.  This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form. The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.     Please tune in for Episode 120 with traci kato-kiriyama, a multi-disciplinary artist, writer/author, actor, arts educator & community organizer. They have most recently released their book Navigating With(out) Instruments. Since 1996, she has performed and written for theatre tours, productions, artist residencies, and performance collaborations in hundreds of venues throughout the country, incl. LaMaMa Cabaret (NY); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (SF); A writer, actor, and theatre devisor, she is one half of the award-winning PULLproject Ensemble with actor/aerial artist, Kennedy Kabasares.   traci is the Co-Founder and Director for Tuesday Night Project, presenter of the Tuesday Night Cafe Series now in its 18th year and the longest-running Asian American mic series in the country. The episode will air on April 26. 

Tom's guest for the hour today is Jabari Asim, one of the country's most imaginative and versatile writers, whose body of work encompasses fiction and non-fiction, poetry, plays and children's literature. He's a former editor of The Crisis , the journal of the NAACP, and the Washington Post,where he wrote a syndicated column. He is the author of acclaimed non-fiction books, including The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't and Whyand We Can't Breathe:  On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival.  He is also the author of the novel, Only the Strongand a collection of short stories called A Taste of Honey.  Professor Asim directs the MFA program at Emerson College in Boston, where he is also the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice. Jabari Asim's latest book is a historical novel set in 1852 in the American South. It chronicles the lives and loves, the longing for liberation, and the heartbreak and violence visited upon a community of enslaved people. This book is a profound masterpiece, peopled with a fascinating cast of characters who never lose touch with their dreams, in spite of unthinkable trauma. And one of the things that makes them so compelling is the fact that they never let the trauma of enslavement define them. The novel is called Yonder.  Jabari Asim joins us on our digital line from Boston. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In conversation with Lise Funderburg The director of the M.F.A. Creative Writing program at Emerson College, Jabari Asim is the author of the novel Only the Strong, the story collection A Taste of Honey, and several works of nonfiction, including We Can't Breathe, The Art of Survival, and What Obama Means...For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future. Also a Guggenheim fellowship-winning poet, playwright, and children's book author, he formerly served as the editor-in-chief of the NAACP's official publication The Crisis, and was an editor and syndicated columnist at The Washington Post. In his new novel, Asim tells the story of a group of enslaved Black people seeking love, friendship, and independence in the 19th century United States South. Lise Funderburg is the author of Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity and Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home. A lecturer in creative writing at the University of Pennsylvania and a teacher at the Paris Writers' Workshop, her achievements include a Nonfiction Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her work has been published in The New York Times, The Nation, Salon, and The Washington Post, among many other periodicals. Her most recent book is Apple, Tree: Writers on Their Parents. (recorded 2/17/2022)

Fairfield Public Library Fairfield, CT https://fairfieldpubliclibrary.org/learning-and-research/find-a-good-book/ Susan Balla, Circulation Supervisor The Taking of Jemima Boone by Mathew Pearl Read a-likes: The First Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer The Lincoln Conspiracy by Brad Meltzer Devil In The White City by Erik Larson Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson The Splendid And The Vile by Erik Larson Manhunt: The 12 Day Chase For Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson Bloody Crimes: The Funeral Of Abraham Lincoln And The Chase For Jefferson Davis by James L. Swanson The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel (#2 In Series) by Ann Cleeves Yonder by Jabari Asim (due out in January) A Flicker In The Dark by Stacy Willingham (due out in January) Murder On An Irish Farm (An Irish Village Mystery #8) by Carlene O'Connor (due out in February) Claudia Silk, Adult Services Librarian The Family by Naomi Krupitski Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray Violetta by Isabel Allende (due out in January) These Precious Days by Ann Patchett Jessica Stevens, Branch Reference Librarian Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Velvet was the Night by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Philip Bahr, podcast host and Head of Adult Services How Y'all Doing?: Misadventures and Mischief from a Life Well Lived by Leslie Jordan The Extraordinaries by TJ Klune The Perfume Thief by Timothy Schaffert

For the 100th episode of Fiction/Non/Fiction, co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan hand out the first-ever “Nonnie Awards” for the podcast's standout moments from the past four years. Then author, poet, and playwright Jabari Asim reflects on how the discourse on racism and police brutality has shifted since last summer. Asim also reads from his upcoming novel Yonder, out in January 2022. To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel, and don't miss our brand-new website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/ This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope. Selected readings: Jabari Asim Yonder (out January 2022, available for pre-order) Stop and Frisk We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival Mighty Justice Others: Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration by Ruben Jonathan Miller The 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Watchmen (TV series) Fiction/Non/Fiction, June 2020: Black Stories Matter: Terrion Williamson and Jabari Asim on Narrative During the George Floyd Protests Fiction/Non/Fiction, February 2020: Coronavirus and Contagion: Laurie Chen and Richard Preston on Writing About the Spread of Disease Fiction/Non/Fiction, March 2019: C. Riley Snorton and T Fleischmann Talk Gender, Race, and Literature Fiction/Non/Fiction, September 2018: Garrard Conley and SJ Sindu on the Mainstreaming of Queer Identity Fiction/Non/Fiction, January 2018: Literary Color Lines: On Inclusion in Publishing Fiction/Non/Fiction, November 2017: We're All Russian, Now: Talking Russian-American Politics, and the Enduring Appeal of Russian Literature   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special Library Fest Episode! An interview with artist and illustrator Gordon C. James about how he creates amazing art, how he feels about libraries, and the impact of art in society.    Gordon C. James read It Doesn't Take a Genius by Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich. And the authors and illustrators of Whose Toes Are Those? and Whose Knees Are These? are Sally Symes and Nick Sharratt, and Jabari Asim and LeUyen Pham.  Register for the Gordon C. James and Derrick Barnes event taking place Monday, April 5th, at 10 AM.  See all Library Fest events at the Library Fest website! Durham County Library, in partnership with Durham Library Foundation, is hosting the inaugural Library Fest Monday, April 5, through Saturday, April 10, 2021. Library Fest is a community celebration during National Library Week that showcases the library system’s exceptional services. With speaker events featuring The Vanishing Half author Brit Bennett, Transcendent Kingdom author Yaa Gyasi, “Purple STEAM” artist Volkan Alkanoglu, and YouTuber Daniel Davis (aka Tinkernut), to name a few, Library Fest will be a diverse representation of the many ways the library can be a part of our lives.   While Library Fest will feature a community reading program with opportunities for readers to engage with authors and illustrators, there’s more to it than just books! Some of the many services we will be highlighting include our new Business Services department, our makerspaces, our support for the arts and humanities, our North Carolina Collection, our new gaming and media center, our outreach to the Hispanic community, and much more. To learn more about the programs offered and registration, visit DurhamCountyLibrary.org/LibraryFest.   Follow the Durham Tech Library on Facebook and Instagram. Contact me, Courtney Bippley, at bippleyc@durhamtech.edu. Contact the Durham Tech Library at library@durhamtech.edu.  Music for this podcast was made by Robert Isaacs. 

Ep. 11 DuEwa interviews award winning writer Jabari Asim. Jabari discusses his newly released books Mighty Justice (middle grade) and My Baby Loves Valentine's Day (picture book). Jabari also discusses his writing life and other works including Stop and Frisk, Only the Strong, and A Child's Introduction to African American History. Visit Jabari's website at www.JabariAsim.org. Order Jabari's books at www.BookShop.org. SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Now available on all major podcast platforms. Follow Nerdacity Podcast on Twitter @Nerdacitypod1. Follow the podcast on IG @NerdacityPodcast. To support this podcast with a donation visit anchor.fm/duewafrazier/support or Cash app $duewaworld. Also visit www.DuEwaWorld.com for more information on DuEwa (podcast Host/Creator). BIO An accomplished poet, playwright, and writer, Jabari Asim has been described as one of the most influential African American literary critics of his generation. Asim has served as the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine—the NAACP's flagship journal of politics, culture, and ideas— and as an editor at The Washington Post, where he wrote a syndicated column on politics, popular culture, and social issues. His writing has appeared in Essence, The Baffler, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The New Republic, American Prospect, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts and is the author of seven books for adults—including We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival —and eleven books for children. His debut book of poems, Stop and Frisk, was published in 2020. His latest books for young readers', Mighty Justice and My Baby Loves Valentine's Day, were released on December 15, 2020. Asim is currently an Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow and Associate Professor at Emerson College. He is both the Graduate Program Director of the MFA Program in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, and the Program Director for the James Baldwin Writers Colony. DISCLAIMER: This podcast features the opinions of DuEwa , opinions of her guests, and also other cited news bites. This podcast does not promote or represent any political party or school of thought other than to comment on news and events from the hosts' point of view. This podcast also does not represent the views or opinions of any employers or organizers DuEwa may work for or with. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/duewafrazier/support

Today's poem is Some Call It God by Jabari Asim.

"Disciples of Jesus should be desperate citizens. The desperate citizen will press their citizenship as far as possible for the sake of thwarting death and its agents." Pastor Amy explores the work of theologian Willie James Jennings and discusses the way our citizenship in nation should be engaged in relationship to our citizenship in the Reign of God. Now is not the time to opt out, when so many have had to fight desperately to be included.Sermon begins at 22:32Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.Jesus Loves Me - Text: Anna B. Warner, 1859; Music: William B. Bradbury, 1862What does the Lord Require - Words and Music by Jim Strathdee © 1986 Desert Flower Music/Jim and Jean Strathdee.Other credits and resources:Seek ye first the kingdom of God - Words and Music by Karen Lafferty © 1972 Maranatha Music.Preaching to the Chickens: the story of young John Lewis, by Jabari Asim. Illustrated by E. B. Lewis.Scripture: Acts 25:1-12PHOTO: lettering by Amy Marie Epp, 2020Read more about the Acts Commentary by Willie James JenningsPass the Peace in America Sign LanguageLand Acknowledgement: Real Rent DuwamishOffering: donations to Seattle Mennonite Church

Our first segment is our monthly feature VLS Journeys hosted by Vanesse Lloyd Sgambati, founder The Literary and the African American Children's Book Fair. In a timely interview Vanesse speaks to Jabari Asim, author of Preaching to the Chickens: The Story of Young John Lewis and the illustrator of the book, world renowned artist E.B. Lewis.https://www.amazon.com/Preaching-Chickens-Story-Young-Lewis/dp/0399168567 Families who never in their wildest dreams thought they'd need to go to a food pantry to feed their kids are doing exactly that because of lost jobs because of the pandemic. There are programs that provide help but not enough people know where to turn. I speak to Serina Gaston, Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Nutrition Education Network about the rise in “food insecurity” and The SNAP Program which provides food assistance. We also talk about the BE Healthy PA website, a robust one stop shop which helps SNAP eligible people find food assistance programs, free nutrition classes and more.https://www.behealthypa.org/Mural Arts has a beautiful program called Emerge that is harnessing the poetry of some of our best spoken word artists to foster inspiration and hope during this pandemic and national reckoning on race. I speak to Greg Corbin, Mural Art's Director of Restorative Justice, Poet/Pew Fellow Ursula Rucker and spoken word artist Saul Miller.https://www.muralarts.org/artworks/emerge/

Recorded by Jabari Asim for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on July 6, 2020. www.poets.org

The police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis has sparked nationwide protests and a reckoning with racism and police brutality. In this episode, University of Minnesota professor and author Terrion Williamson talks with Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about her recent Belt Magazine essay, in which she writes about the parallels between George Floyd's killing and the 2010 death of David Cornelius Smith, a Black man who moved from her hometown to the Twin Cities. Then, poet and writer Jabari Asim breaks down the dangerous fallout of the criminalization of Black communities and favorable portrayals of police in literature and the media, which he tackles in his newest collection, “Stop and Frisk.” To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. And check out video excerpts from our interviews at LitHub's Virtual Book Channel and Fiction/Non/Fiction's YouTube Channel. This podcast is produced by Andrea Tudhope.  Guests: Jabari Asim Terrion Williamson Selected readings for the episode: Jabari Asim Stop and Frisk A Child's Introduction to African American History We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival Only the Strong What Obama Means … for Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future Not Guilty Sing It Like a God The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why  A Taste of Honey: Stories Terrion Williamson The Black Midwest Initiative Remembering David Cornelius Smith Black in the Middle: An Anthology of the Black Midwest Scandalize My Name: Black Feminist Practice and the Making of Black Social Life Others:  Minneapolis Had This Coming by Justin Ellis Why Minneapolis Was the Breaking Point by Wesley Lowery Revealing the Divisive History of Minneapolis by Sarah Holder Century after Minnesota lynchings, black man convicted of rape ‘because of his race' up for pardon by Meagan Flynn Their Minneapolis Restaurant Burned, but They Back the Protest by Amelia Nierenberg Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police by Mariame Kaba The tiny media collective that is delivering some of the most vital reporting from Minneapolis by Troy Patterson Amy Cooper Is Fired After Calling Police on Black Birder in Central Park All Fiction is Crime Fiction: Mat Johnson on the Origins of Modern Mystery The Crisis Magazine - NAACP's Magazine Chester Himes Barbara Neely Grace Edwards Attica Locke Nichelle Tramble Walter Mosley Watchmen (television series) BlackKklansman Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to our second installment of Shakespeare’s Shorts, where your favorites from F***ing Shakespeare host the virtual book tour that no one would have wanted before COVID-19, but that is now giving us a literary lifeline as we’re locked inside! Join us as we keep our thumbs on the pulse of amazing new literature, so it doesn’t get lost to quarantine.And we have a particularly special guest on today’s episode! Jabari Asim’s poetry book Stop and Frisk comes out this Friday, Juneteenth 2020, from our very own press, Bloomsday Literary. Y’all, this book is already making national headlines. Part rap sheet, part concept album, Jabari’s Stop and Frisk is a deft piece of literature that couldn’t be coming out at a better time. The collection seems to sing from infinitely deep lungs, as Jabari dives into the epidemic of police brutality and what it means to be a Black person in a public space, armed with a poetic scalpel and the gift of persona poetry. As we chat, Jabari gives us a rec of an album to listen to in the morning before the day even begins. We also discuss unearned advantages and what it means to have enough privilege to pause and take a breath. Best of all, he gives an absolutely stunning reading from his book. If you’re curious about the poems between the pages of this “handsome volume” (his words, not ours!), then lend us your ear for just a few minutes. You can pre-order Stop and Frisk from Bloomsday Literary here.Also read his powerful collection of essays, We Can’t Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival.Honorable Mentions:Nebraska by Bruce SpringsteenWhat’s Going On by Marvin GayeBobby McFarin by Bobby McFarin“A Brief for the Defense” by Jack Gilbert

In which Carla explores all the different incarnations of Childe Roland and his Dark Tower quest throughout history.   Referenced and related episodes: Episode 19: The King’s Eclipse: https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-19-kings-eclipse/ Listen at Podchaser Episode 54: Gilead: Meaning in Place Listen at Podchaser   Suggested Reading (links to Bookshop.org, supporting independent bookstores and There Might Be Cupcakes): Stephen King’s The Dark Tower Concordance by Robin Furth  The Dark Tower Companion: A Guide to Stephen King's Epic Fantasy by my friend Bev Vincent  The Road to the Dark Tower: Exploring Stephen King's Magnum Opus by my friend Bev Vincent  The Dark Tower 8-Book Boxed Set  The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger  The Dark Tower 2: The Drawing of the Three  The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands  The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla  The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah  The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower  Carla's currently reading (mentioned in episode): The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't, and Why by Jabari Asim (added to Goodreads bookshelf and Bookshop.org bookshelf)   Sources: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs Men and Women by Robert Browning: “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, Robert Browning  The maze and pilgrimage of poetic creation in Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came", Jean-Charles Perquin, Assistant Professor of English, LYON 2 University, France http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/rb/roland/perquin.html Behind “Childe Rowland”: https://writinginmargins.weebly.com/home/behind-childe-rowland Faerie Etiquette: http://theforgottenlibrary.tumblr.com/post/94435119934/faerie-etiquette-what-to-do-if-you-meet-one-of   Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Haunted_Me/Pleasure/   How to Support Cupcakes: Sponsor: Audible Sponsor: Birchbox Sponsor: Care/Of Vitamins  Patreon: Cupcakes Flattr@theremightbecupcakes: flattr/@theremightbecupcakes Bookshop.org   Where to Find Cupcakes: Facebook Page: theremightbecupcakes Facebook Group: There Might Be Cupcakes Twitter: @mightbecupcakes Instagram: @theremightbecupcakes Podbelly YouTube channel Host: theremightbecupcakes.podbean Goodreads: Goodreads podcast bookshelf. add Carla as a friend Patreon Contact: carla@theremightbecupcakes.com Google Voice: 434-214-0873

Author Jabari Asim and CIIS’s Dean of Diversity and Inclusion Denise Boston in conversation about his new book. It's about a different side of American history - one that doesn't depend on a narrative steeped in oppression, but rather reveals African American voices telling their own stories.

Editor-in-chief of The Crisis magazine, the NAACP's flagship periodical, and a former editor and syndicated columnist at the The Washington Post, Jabari Asim is a professor of creative writing at Emerson College. His  many books include The N Word; What Obama Means...For Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Future; A Taste of Honey: Stories; and the debut novel Only the Strong, ''a heartfelt, polyphonic ode to 1970s black America'' (Wall Street Journal). He is also a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning poet, playwright, and acclaimed children's book author. We Can't Breathe is a collection of eight essays that disrupt the conventional narrative of black history in America. Watch the video here. (recorded 11/20/2018)

This program originally aired on October 16, 2018. Author Jabari Asim joins Tom in Studio A today. Asim is a former editor and columnist for The Washington Post and the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis, the journal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His 2007 book, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why was acclaimed for its important and trenchant observations about race in America.Asim’s latest book, titled We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, is a collection of personal and political essays that continues his exploration of the complex dynamics of race, in particular around what he calls the “narrative combat” that white and black people engage in as they live and encounter racial inequality from vastly different perspectives.Asim will speak about his new book tonight at the Enoch Pratt Central Library as part of their Writers LIVE series. Find out more information here.

This collection of insightful and searing essays celebrates the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America. In We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In these wide-ranging and penetrating essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life, the importance of black fathers and community, the significance of black writers and stories, and the beauty and pain of the black body. What emerges is a rich portrait of a community and culture that has resisted, survived, and flourished despite centuries of racism, violence, and trauma.Jabari Asim was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. For eleven years, he was an editor at The Washington Post, where he also wrote a syndicated column on politics, popular culture and social issues. Since 2007 he has been the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, the NAACP's flagship journal of politics, culture and ideas. Asim is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts and the author of four books for adults, including The N Word, and six books for children.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.Recorded On: Tuesday, October 16, 2018

This collection of insightful and searing essays celebrates the vibrancy and strength of black history and culture in America. In We Can't Breathe, Jabari Asim disrupts what Toni Morrison has exposed as the "Master Narrative" and replaces it with a story of black survival and persistence through art and community in the face of centuries of racism. In these wide-ranging and penetrating essays, he explores such topics as the twisted legacy of jokes and falsehoods in black life, the importance of black fathers and community, the significance of black writers and stories, and the beauty and pain of the black body. What emerges is a rich portrait of a community and culture that has resisted, survived, and flourished despite centuries of racism, violence, and trauma.Jabari Asim was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. For eleven years, he was an editor at The Washington Post, where he also wrote a syndicated column on politics, popular culture and social issues. Since 2007 he has been the editor-in-chief of Crisis magazine, the NAACP's flagship journal of politics, culture and ideas. Asim is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts and the author of four books for adults, including The N Word, and six books for children.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by The Miss Howard Hubbard Adult Programming Fund.

Author Jabari Asim joins Tom in the studio today. Asim is a former editor and columnist for The Washington Post and the Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis, the journal of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. His 2007 book, The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t, and Why was acclaimed for its important and trenchant observations about race in America.Asim’s latest book, titled We Can't Breathe: On Black Lives, White Lies, and the Art of Survival, is a collection of personal and political essays that continues his exploration of the complex dynamics of race, in particular around what he calls the “narrative combat” that white and black people engage in as they live and encounter racial inequality from vastly different perspectives.Asim will speak about his new book tonight at the Enoch Pratt Central Library as part of their Writers LIVE series. Find out more information here.

Jabari Asim (@jabariasim), author of Preaching to the Chickens, stops by the podcast to talk about envisioning a life in letters, the moment when you know what you are going to become, life's presences of a gentle, guiding hand.

It was an honor and a joy to sit down (virtually) with Jabari Asim and talk about just how a man with five children and a big deal job manages to be so productive across so many genres.

In his debut novel, Jabari Asim explores urban life in the first years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, using the intertwined stories of a retired “leg breaker,” an aging kingpin, an altruistic pediatrician, and a foster child turned college student. Set against the grim backdrop of a deteriorating neighborhood, Only the Strong features strong characters, whose stories are deeply rooted in the book’s time and place.Jabari Asim is the author of many works of fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and drama. He is the executive editor of The Crisis, and is an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson College.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.Recorded On: Wednesday, June 17, 2015

In his debut novel, Jabari Asim explores urban life in the first years after the assassination of Martin Luther King, using the intertwined stories of a retired “leg breaker,” an aging kingpin, an altruistic pediatrician, and a foster child turned college student. Set against the grim backdrop of a deteriorating neighborhood, Only the Strong features strong characters, whose stories are deeply rooted in the book’s time and place.Jabari Asim is the author of many works of fiction, nonfiction, essays, poetry, and drama. He is the executive editor of The Crisis, and is an associate professor of creative writing at Emerson College.Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.

On Saturday, February 28th, Papercuts J.P. hosted academics Jabari Asim and Emmett G. Price III in a conversation on contemporary Black American issues to close Black History Month. Listen to the dynamic conversation with the live audience here. Jabari Asim is an author, poet, playwright, editor-in-chief at The Crisis magazine, and professor at Emerson College. He is the author of children's books, short stories, and non-fiction books The N Word and What Obama Means. His first novel, Only the Strong will be published this spring 2015. Emmett G. Price III is a leading expert on African American music and culture, an acclaimed scholar, ordained minister, professor at Northeastern University, and author of non-fiction books, including The Black Church and Hip Hop Culture.  Papercuts J.P. is a independent bookstore, established November 2014 in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston.

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal is joined by Liana and Jabari Asim. Liana Asim is a playwright and a librettist. Jabari Asim is an author, poet, and playwright.

Writers Danielle Evans and Jabari Asim celebrate the birthday of American author Ralph Ellison by reading selections from his work and discussing his influence on their own writing. For transcript, captions, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5537.

Cyrus Webb welcomes author Jabari Asim to Conversations LIVE! Radio at the top of the hour to discuss his writing career and the new book A TASTE OF HONEY. At 30 min. past the hour, Webb welcomes celebrated author Christopher Rice to Conversations LIVE! Radio to discuss his career and new title.

Segment A: Letters to Jackie When President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963 the nation, and the world, mourned. Over the course of the two years following Kennedy's death his widow Jackie received 1.5 million condolence letters. The letters remained largely untouched for decades, but historian and News Hour with Jim Lehrer commentator Ellen Fitzpatrick has gathered 250 of the letters in a collection titled Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation. You'll want to tune in to hear about the heartfelt and moving letters Fitzpatrick has brought to light. Segment B: A Taste of Honey Acclaimed author, critic and literary scholar Jabari Asim has penned and published his first work of fiction A Taste of Honey: Stories. Though it is a work of fiction the stories are rooted in the tumultuous reality of 1968 America. The sixteen interconnected stories create a realistic depiction of life for African Americans living in a fictionalized small Midwestern town.

Through a series of fictional episodes about a small Midwestern town, Jabari Asim brings into focus how the tumultuous events of 1968 affected real people's lives. The 16 connected stories are set in one of the most turbulent years in modern history, 1968, in the fictional town of South Gateway, where second-generation offspring of the Great Migrators have pieced together a thriving if uneasy existence. Centered on the lives of a diverse cast of well-drawn characters, the stories evoke a uniquely American epoch. With police brutality on the rise, the civil rights movement gaining momentum, and wars raging at home and abroad, the community Asim has conjured stands on edge.Jabari Asim is the author of What Obama Means, The N Word, and several books for children. He is a scholar-in-residence at the University of Illinois and editor-in-chief of The Crisis. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, Essence, Ebony, and other publications. He recently was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recorded On: Wednesday, March 24, 2010

"The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn't and Why"  feisty conversation with Jabari Asim.   Open-line in two parts re: the Fair Share Act.     Plus, "Kingdom Coming:  the Rise of Christian Nationalism"   Michelle Goldberg  does her Pauline Revere..."...the Christians are Coming"!