Doing my best to catch up a bit on missed posts, here's one for last Thursday, when I went to a trivia night at a coffee shop in Raleigh. I was a relative newcomer, joining friends on their established team. The topic was poetry, and the competition turned out to be a lot of fun. Although I by no means carried the team, I was pleasantly surprised to find out how much knowledge about poetry and poets was almost on the tip of my tongue. The experience got me excited about reading more poetry and learning more about it. Our team won three out of four rounds (thank you, thank you . . .), and the prizes for each round were used books of our choice. I got some pretty neat stuff that I might not otherwise have picked out to read. The book prizes made sense because the trivia night was sponsored by some portion of the Wake County public library system. Or at least librarians in their off hours. Sadly, it was the last such event they are hosting, and I guess we'll have to get our trivia fix elsewhere from now on (I'm already hatching plans for pan-state trivial conquest . . . .). At the end of the night we were the winners, and we took home a $25 gift card to a bar/restaurant in addition to our stacks of books. It was a satisfying evening, and a great impetus to sweep out the cobwebs from the less-visited nooks and alleyways of my mind.
