80s Adolescent Angst: Adolescent Angst Poetry Contest Details

Why blog the 80s?

Due to not-so-popular yet compelling demand, I'm blogging my high school diary entries from the late eighties and early nineties.

You are more likely to enjoy this blog if:
- You were born between 1970 and 1976.
- You thought George Michael would fall in love with you if he only got to know you.
- Your Aquanet consumption easily exceeded one fushia aerosol can per month.
- You penned at least one angsty poem per week about your latest crush.
- You assiduously nursed all legitimate bouts of melancholia into sustained periods of truly impressive despair. When you consulted your journals weeks after writing about each episode, you moved yourself to tears.

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Dig out your old journals and diaries for our

Adolescent Angst BAD Poetry

EXHIBITION!

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Guidelines
Ideally, submissions meet the following criteria...
--Written many years ago, during a fit of adolescent angst
--No strong emotional attachments to the poem, please
--Hopelessly self-indulgent and self-involved
--Rhyming preferred
--Up to five submissions accepted per person

Submission Details
--Submit your poetry to 80s.angst@gmail.com
--Include "angst poetry contest" in the subject line.
--Provide email or snail mail contact information.

Deadlines
--Submissions accepted until March 15th.
--Voting begins ten days later, on March 25th.
----Beginning March 25th a poll of poem titles appears at top left of this blog.
----The poll will list the top five angsty poems by title.
----Read the most recent posts; each will contain one of the top five poems.
----Use the polling feature to vote for your poem.
---Voting ends on April 14th.

Prizes
--Winner (popular favorite) receives $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Noble
--2nd runner up receives year subscription to Poets & Writers magazine
--TOP 5 receive never-ending fame and glory as permanent posts on the 80s Adolescent Angst blog.