Rita Dove: Set Phasers To Poem

Ask Me Another

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4.6 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

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	Hey everybody, things are opening up so we decided it would be fun to remind ourselves
0:05.6	what a live audience sounds like by revisiting one of our favorite episodes from the before
0:10.6	times.
0:11.6	We'll have more new shows in a couple weeks including my interview with Uso Aduba from
0:15.6	Intreatment and Orange is the New Black.
0:18.2	Enjoy!
0:19.2	Hey Jonathan.
0:21.2	Yes.
0:22.2	We're in Virginia Beach.
0:23.6	Speed round.
0:24.6	Okay.
0:25.6	True or false, Virginia Beach hosts the annual East Coast surfing championships.
0:29.0	That is true.
0:29.9	True or false, this area is known as America's first region.
0:35.2	I do not know what that means but it is true.
0:37.5	That is true.
0:38.5	True or false, Virginia Beach holds the Guinness World Record for largest pleasure beach.
0:46.4	That is true and also...
0:50.5	From NPR and WNYC coming to you from the Virginia Arts Festival, it's NPR's hour of puzzles,
0:59.2	Bird Games and trivia, ask me another.
1:02.2	I'm Jonathan Colton.
1:03.6	Now here's your host, Ophira Eisenberg.
	...

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