Leith Morton, Tokyo He began studying Chinese at

He began studying Chinese at Phillips Academy in Andover and continued through college at Wesleyan University

Among the most popular of his poems are a handful of poems not wholly in Tagalog

supporting Burmese activists and displaced people to access higher education

You Jump to Another Dream is his first full-length collection in English

Leith Morton, Tokyo He began studying Chinese atTokyo is a four chapter poem that attempts to capture the essence of the modern city of Tokyo, the biggest city on earth, by poems grouped into four categories: history, people, geography and art. This eclectic exploration thus paints a picture of the living beast that is the modern city of Tokyo while also playing a side riff on one or two outsiders who resided as denizens in the belly of the beast. The poems include lyrics but are primarily linked