November 30, 1909 [York, Ontario, Canada] – February, 1976 [Buffalo, New York]
Yates is best known as a music critic and supported of the experimental arts in Los Angeles (his name appears frequently in the biography of Harry Partch, for example, whom he helped, and he was something of a go-between for Schoenberg and Stravinsky). He wrote poetry his entire life, and though always well-crafted, he published infrequently. A beautiful edition, The Garden Prospect: Selected Poems, was published by Jargon Press in 1980.
