When people ask, “Why hasn’t the Re· formed community produced any writers?” they usually mean novelists and poets. That question has bemused and baffled us increasingly as works of fiction especially are published by the hundreds in the English language every year. Stolid temperament, provincialism, lack of refined culture, middle·class status, unbookish occupations, paucity of […]

As I watch them everyday, So beautiful and red, But growing so slow I say. Today I saw the blossom, Tomorrow I’ll see the bloom. I’ll also see the roses, By the garden as beautiful As anything can be. Finally I’ll get to see them, All grown and red I’ll get to see. I’ll only […]