While at Stanford, she was part of the circle of Yvor Winters who included her in Twelve Poets of the Pacific (New Directions, 1937).
He was working as a professional puppeteer in Glendale when his first poems appeared in Grover I. Jacoby’s Variegation and Recurrence.
Though he moved back to Colorado in 1949, he published frequently in L.A.-based poetry journals Variegation: A Free Verse Quarterly, and Recurrence: A Quarterly of Rhyme
Jacoby edited two long-running national poetry magazines, Variegation (1946-1959), devoted to free verse, and Recurrence (1950-1959)
Yates is best known as a music critic and supported of the experimental arts in Los Angeles.