Words to Stir the Soul

12 Books - 1 Boulder

Susan Deans, Vice President and Editor of the Daily Camera
Reading from Robert L. Perkin, The First 100 Years: An Informal History of Denver and the Rocky Mountain News (Doubleday, 1959). ASIN: B00007E6NGO

Justin Dombrowski, Boulder Wildland Fire Management Coordinator
Reading from Gary Snyder, “Axe Handles” from Axe Handles: Poems (Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005). ISBN: 1593760574

Clay Evans, Daily Camera Columnist
Reading from Robinson Jeffers, “The Deer Lay Down Their Bones” from Selected Poems (Vintage, 1965). ISBN: 0394702956; and Edward Winslow Bryant, Jr., “Strata” from Wyoming Sun (Jelm Mountain, 1980). ISBN: 093620415X

Jerrie Hurd, Author of The Lady Pinkerton Gets Her Man and the forthcoming Just Above Bone
Reading from Isabel Allende, Zorro (HarperCollins, 2005). ISBN: 0060778970

Eric Love, Associate Professor of History, CU-Boulder
Reading from Randall Kenan, Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century (Vintage, 2000). ISBN: 067973788X

Cora Evelyn Prude, Undergraduate History Major and Candidate for Western American Studies Certificate

George Russell, M.D., Cowboy Poet
Reading from Hugh Antoine D’Arcy, “The Face on the Barroom Floor” from The Best Loved Poems of the American People, (Doubleday; Reissue 1936). ISBN: 0385000197.

Reg Saner, Retired Professor of English, CU-Boulder; Author of The Dawn Collector: On My Way to the Natural World and The Four-Cornered Falcon: Essays on the Interior West and the Natural Scene
Reading from Reg Saner, Desert Savvy (forthcoming).

Charles Scoggin, M.D., CEO and Co-founder of Sage Medical Institute; Board Member, Center of the American West
Reading from Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (University of Chicago Press, 1992). ISBN: 0226500616

Frank Shorter, Olympic Gold Medalist Marathon Runner
Reading from Frank Waters, The Man Who Killed the Deer (Swallow Press, 1942). ISBN: 0804001944

Lorenzo Trujillo, Assistant Dean, School of Law; Board Member, Center of the American West
Reading from Marie Oralia Durán Trujillo, Autumn Memories: My New Mexican Roots and Traditions (El Escritorio, 1999). ASIN: 0962897477

Charles Wilkinson, Moses Lasky Professor of Law, CU-Boulder
Reading from Wallace Stegner, The Sound of Mountain Water (Penguin, 1997). ISBN: 0140266747

James Williams, Dean of Libraries, CU-Boulder
Reading from David Lavender, The Way to the Western Sea: Lewis and Clark Across the Continent (Doubleday, 1988). ISBN: 0803280033