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Joseph Smith in the Book of Mormon

Dialogue 36.4 (Winter 2004):109–128
DID JOSEPH SMITH WRITE the Book of Mormon? To this over-familiar question the orthodox Latter-day Saint answer is a resounding “No” because the official belief is that a series of men with quasi-biblical names wrote the book over many centuries.

About the Artist

Scott Carrier, whose photographs we feature in this issue of Dialogue, is an independent writer and radio producer. His print stories have been published in Harper’s, Rolling Stone, Esquire, QQ, and Mother Jones magazines. His radio…

Cargoes II

Tanker from al-Kuwayt on the Persian Gulf 
Passes the Straits of Hormuz (which Americans hold), 
With a cargo of “black gold”— 
Gas and petroleum— 
For further refinement in Galveston. 

War Bride

She pictures heavy boots, plodding through sand, 
and wonders if the socks she knitted fit him. 
In sundown-smoky Baghdad, her Marine digs trenches, 
longing for double beds and salt-rimmed tequilas,