Dexter L. Booth

Biography

Dexter L. Booth is the author of Abracadabra, Sunshine (Red Hen, 2021), the chapbook Rhapsody (Upper Rubber Book, 2019), and the collection Scratching the Ghost (Graywolf, 2013), which was selected by Major Jackson as the winner of the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Grist, Willow Springs, and New Delta Review.

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POETRY / Summer 2013

Queen Elizabeth

By Dexter L. Booth

John, you asked me what it was like to be black,
to come from a place where being black mattered.