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About Ernest Yates | Philadelphia Poet

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1946

Born Ancon, Panama (at that time, the Panama Canal Zone)

Born Ancon, Panama (at that time, the Panama Canal Zone)

1952

Moves to New Orleans, Louisiana

1964 to 1968

Attends Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota

Attends Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota

During that time Yates meets Jacqueline Röell, a citizen of The Netherlands studying on a one-year scholarship at Carleton.

January 1969 to January 1971

Military service, U.S. Army

January 1971 to August 1972

Travels throughout Europe and resides in The Netherlands

September 1971 to June 1972

Audits courses at the English Institute, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

July 1972

Marries Jacqueline Röell in The Hague, The Netherlands

Marries Jacqueline Röell in The Hague, The Netherlands

The Yates’s have three children and five grandchildren.

September 1972

Begins doctoral studies at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1975 to 1977

Writes doctoral dissertation entitled “In the Land of the Lemon Trees”: The Exotic in Wallace Stevens, with Dr. Joel Conarroe as dissertation adviser

December 1976 to present

Builds career at a regional office of the Social Security Administration in Philadelphia

1976 to the present:

Writes and edits poems constantly

1976 to 1990

Publishes poems in 40 literary magazines and journals; wins three prizes, including the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society

June 1977

Receives Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania

1995

Begins frequent walking tours through streets of Philadelphia, recording impressions with audio recorder in one hand and camera in the other

2004 to 2009

Publishes three Philadelphia-themed chapbooks in small independent presses

2013

Begins self-publishing book-length collections of poems, all of them sub-titled “Poems of Philadelphia.”

The books are composed of poems gathered from the previous 40 years of writing, and are arranged according to specific themes.

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