"Words to Stir the Soul: Readings From the American West," will be presented by the CU-Boulder Center of the American West in Boulder on Tuesday, Aug. 27, and in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 29. The sixth annual event will be held at 7 p.m. on Aug. 27 in the Old Main Chapel on the University of Colorado at Boulder campus, and at 7:30 p.m. on Aug. 29 at the LoDo Tattered Cover Book Store at 16th Street and Wyncoop Street in Denver.