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Sally Cragin is an award-winning journalist whose arts writing and theatre reviews appeared regularly in the Boston Phoenix, Boston Herald, and most recently, the Boston Globe. She has won two Penney-Missouri Journalism awards for feature writing. From 1999 to 2001, she was the chief drama critic for the St. Louis Riverfront Times. She has also taught critical writing at Harvard Extension School, Webster University (St. Louis), and Fitchburg State University. She also lived in Somerville when it was cheap – those were the days!

ALL THOSE ROCK CLUBS

Sally Cragin

One remembers it gritty — grubby, stained

Newspaper-smeared, spilled beer on your sleeve

And loud, so loud you dissolve in the beat

And everyone’s heat, and the heaving swell

Of guitar chords simmering, smashing, and crashing

All bodies collide in the universe inside

Heaven or hell – you decide

— Sally Cragin

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