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Cameron Brooks is the author of Forbearance (Cascade Books, 2025).

A poet and essayist from South Dakota, he holds degrees from the University of Sioux Falls (B.A.), Princeton Theological Seminary (M.A.) and Seattle Pacific University (M.F.A.).

Cameron's work is found in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry East, Cumberland River Review, Third Wednesday, North Dakota Quarterly, Ad Fontes, New Verse Review, and elsewhere. His poem “White Space” won the South Dakota State Poetry Society annual contest.

Cameron lives in Sioux Falls with his wife and son. ...more

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Forbearance: Poems

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The Locust Years

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Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

by Martin Shaw

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The Discipline of Inspiration: The Mysterious Encounter with God at the Heart of Creativity

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Cameron Brooks and 6 other people liked Scott Bielinski's review of Forbearance: Poems: "A book of poems that begins with an epigraph from McCarthy’s The Crossing can only be great. Forbearance was a joy to read. Whether in my office, visiting congregants, waiting to meet someone at Cava (where I probably looked like a maniac to those sc" Read more of this review »
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