Gibbons began writing in earnest in 1972, after meeting Robert Hellman[1] in Gloucester, Massachusetts, who'd moved from New York in order to make a film with Thorpe Feidt on Charles Olson.

[3] After living in Mexico City and Zihuatenejo, the couple met painter Fernando Sanchez, who was finishing a mural by David Siqueiros; poet, Ali Chumacero; & filmmaker, Manuel Avila Camacho, with whom they traveled to Veracruz in order to make the film La Playa.

[6] In 2004, Gibbons succeeded Claire Barbetti as poetry and fiction editor of Janus Head,[7] where over the next eight years he published works by Robert Bly, Andrei Codrescu, Clayton Eshleman, William Heyen, Richard Hoffman, Fanny Howe, Pattiann Rogers, & Jerome Rothenberg, along with translations of Paul Celan, Pablo Neruda, Tomas Tranströmer, & Cesar Vallejo.

In September of the previous year, he and his second wife, Kathleen (née Thompson) marched with other protesters against two wars & the Bush Administration's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina.

His work was included in the anthology, The Other Side of Sorrow: Poets Speak Out about Conflict, War, and Peace[10] published by The Poetry Society of New Hampshire, edited by Patricia Frisella & Cicely Buckley.

He received a $10,000 grant from the John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund in order to travel to Scotland & read his work at the Poetry & Politics Conference held at the University of Stirling in July 2006.