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I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

I was 7 years old when the '80s began and 17 years old when they ended, so it was an incredibly formative decade for me.

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

I've always been drawn to the American style in the late '50s and '60s.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

I used to love the '20s.

I am stuck in the 70's. I can't seem to get away from that era.

In the little rural town I grew up in, I missed out on the pop music of the time, the '80s, and now enjoy in retrospect. It's as an adult that I've opened it up to dance, hip-hop, R&B, and even big pop songs.