R. A. Christmas
R. A. (ROBERT ALAN) CHRISTMAS {[email protected]} has a BA from Stanford, MA from UC–Berkeley, and a PhD from USC, all in English. He joined the Church in 1957, and has been publishing poetry, fiction, and criticism in Dialogue since the first issue. He left college teaching in 1973 for a forty-year career in business, twenty spent selling and investing in real estate in the Provo/Salt Lake City area with his late wife and partner, Carol Dennis, with whom he served three LDS senior missions. He has published seven books of poetry, a collection of stories, and a songbook from his years as a singer-songwriter in Hollywood and he is working on his first musical, “A Carol Christmas/Musical The.” He lives in southern Utah with a daughter and six of his twenty-some grandchildren. His publications can be found at www. lulu.com/spotlight/rachristmas.
The Autobiography of Parley P. Pratt: Some Literary, Historical, and Critical Reflections
Articles/Essays – Volume 1, No. 1
A Translation of Paul Valery’s “Ebauche D’un Serpent”: Sketch of a Serpent
Articles/Essays – Volume 3, No. 1
Decapitating the Mormons: Richard Scowcroft’s New Novel: The Ordeal of Dudley Dean by Richard Scowcroft
Articles/Essays – Volume 5, No. 2
Close to the Bone: Fresh Meat/Warm Weather by Joyce Eliason
Articles/Essays – Volume 9, No. 4
Three Generations of Mormon Poetry | A zipper of haze; Tinder; Christmas Voices
Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 1
Dennis Clark loves poetry and poets, and he also loves to write poetry. I don’t think this can be said of everybody in the poetry business. These three chapbooks are evidence of Dennis’s development as…
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