Alphonse Keasley, director of the Minority Arts and Science Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder, reads from The Devil's Red Nickel by Robert Greer. These readings, from the Words to Stir the Sour series hosted by the Center of the American West, are an occasional feature of Colorado Matters.
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