Rita Dove: Set Phasers To Poem

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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As Ask Me Another prepares for its final run of new episodes, enjoy this week's encore of a past favorite, taped at the Virginia Arts Festival. The guest is U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. She improvises a poem. She plays a game about Star Trek: The Next Generation. Everything you love about this show is well-represented.

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0:00.0	Support for NPR and the following message comes from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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0:12.1	Learn more at RWJF.org.
0:16.1	Hey, everybody. Things are opening up, so we decided it would be fun to remind ourselves what a live audience sounds like by revisiting one of our favorite episodes from The Before Times. We'll have more new shows in a couple weeks, including my interview with Uzo Aduba from In Treatment and Orange is the New Black. Enjoy.
0:35.8	Hey, Jonathan. Yes.
0:38.5	We're in Virginia Beach.
0:39.5	Speed round.
0:44.1	True or false, Virginia Beach hosts the annual East Coast surfing championships.
0:44.7	That is true.
0:45.4	That is true.
0:46.2	True or false.
0:50.1	This area is known as America's first region.
0:52.3	I do not know what that means, but it is true.
0:53.6	That is true.
1:01.5	True or false, Virginia Beach holds the Guinness World Record for Largest Pleasure Beach.
1:03.0	That is true and also... Ugh.
1:07.6	From NPR and WNYC, coming to you from the Virginia Arts Festival it's NPR's hour of puzzles word games and trivia ask me another I'm Jonathan Colton now here's your host Ophira Eisenberg
1:21.6	Wow thank you, Jonathan.
1:30.2	We are so happy to be here at the Virginia Arts Festival
1:33.4	and four brilliant contestants
1:35.7	are waiting backstage, debating whether this show
1:39.1	qualifies as art.
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