Yokohama-based essayist and poet Morgan Gibson has been and continues to be one of the most prolific contributors to Japan's English literary scene. Of his own work he had poems published in the 1970s in pioneering journals like One Mind and Kyoto Review and later, in the '80s, in publications like Blue Jacket; his most recent poetry has appeared in Yomimono.
Gibson has contributed editorially to Edge: International Arts Interface; the Japan Environmental Monitor; and the Japan Poetry Review. Printed Matter published his column "Buddhas in Question" in the mid-'90s. He now writes the column "Philosophizing in the Void" for the Kyoto Journal.
Perhaps most notably, however, Gibson is an authority on the great poet and translator of Japanese poetry Kenneth Rexroth. Rexroth studies were enriched by Gibson's scholarly bibliography, which was published in Electric Rexroth. Electric Rexroth editor Tetsuya Taguchi says Gibson "is a poet of snow," as can be intuited in Gibson's broadsheet of poems "Winter Pilgrim" and many of his other poems. His story "Is There a God in Your Heart?" was included in "The Broken Bridge," an anthology of expatriate fiction from Japan. His essay collection "Among Buddhas in Japan" was published by White Pine Press.