TERMINAL MORAINE

From prize winning poet Betty Nicholas Bowers comes an intimate collection of poems documenting her experience on the wide, windswept prairies of South Dakota during the depression era and family stories of life, love, and loss. Nearly fifty poems, written over decades, tell a moving story of powerful love and complex emotions shared by many families.

Betty Nicholas Bowers graduated from the University of South Dakota with a BA in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude. Her MS and EdS studies were through the University of Wisconsin. She worked as a speech/language pathologist at Wausau Hospitals, as a psychologist in the Wausau Public Schools and as faculty at Northcentral Technical College, Wausau, Wisconsin. Betty’s writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wisconsin Academy Review, South Dakota Magazine, and Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets publications. For ten years she was a columnist for the Door County Advocate, writing The Artist’s Wife; additionally her features and interviews appeared in local and regional newspapers. Betty’s poetry and essays have received awards from The Wisconsin Academy, The Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets, and The Presbyterian Writers Guild.