Rita Dove: Set Phasers To Poem

Ask Me Another

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🗓️ 19 January 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ask Me Another goes to the Virginia Arts Festival with former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove. This episode originally aired on August 25, 2017.

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0:35.6	Hey Jonathan.
0:37.8	Yes.
0:39.2	We're in Virginia Beach.
0:40.2	Speed round.
0:44.7	True or false, Virginia Beach hosts the annual East Coast Surfing Championships.
0:45.4	That is true.
0:46.1	That is true.
0:46.8	True or false.
0:50.8	This area is known as America's first region.
0:53.0	I do not know what that means, but it is true. That is true. True or false, Virginia
0:56.8	Beach holds the Guinness World Record for Largest Pleasure Beach. That is true and also,
1:03.7	ugh.
1:08.3	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
1:17.8	I'm Jonathan Colton now here's your host Ophira Eisenberg
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