EY Bio1946Born Ancon, Panama (at that time, the Panama Canal Zone) 1952Moves to New Orleans, Louisiana 1964 to 1968Attends Carleton College in Northfield, MinnesotaDuring that time Yates meets Jacqueline Röell, a citizen of The Netherlands studying on a one-year scholarship at Carleton. January 1969 to January 1971Military service, U.S. Army January 1971 to August 1972Travels throughout Europe and resides in The Netherlands September 1971 to June 1972Audits courses at the English Institute, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands July 1972Marries Jacqueline Röell in The Hague, The NetherlandsThe Yates’s have three children and five grandchildren. September 1972Begins doctoral studies at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1975 to 1977Writes 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 presentBuilds career at a regional office of the Social Security Administration in Philadelphia 1976 to the present: Writes and edits poems constantly 1976 to 1990Publishes poems in 40 literary magazines and journals; wins three prizes, including the Grand Prize of the Pennsylvania Poetry Society June 1977Receives Ph.D. in English from the University of Pennsylvania 1995Begins frequent walking tours through streets of Philadelphia, recording impressions with audio recorder in one hand and camera in the other 2004 to 2009Publishes three Philadelphia-themed chapbooks in small independent presses 2013Begins 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.