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I'm Christa Tippett. Up next, my unedited conversation with Poet Engineer Richard Blanco.

There is a shorter produced version of this wherever you found this podcast.

Good morning. My name is Matt Ewalt and I serve Shatok, institution as vice president and Emily and Richard Smucker Chair for Education.

It's my pleasure to welcome you to the amphitheater this morning.

As we did yesterday and will tomorrow, we're starting a little early to, in order to accommodate our friends from On Being as they record these programs for broadcast at a later date.

Before this morning's lecture, excuse me, I do have a few announcements.

If you were here Monday or Tuesday, you know that our format is slightly different this week.

Our usual audience Q&A period will begin around 11.35 a.m. and run for 10 to 15 minutes.

We'll then toss back to our guests for 10 closing minutes of their conversation.

As usual, you may submit questions through our ushers who will circulate shortly before the Q&A and who can provide slips of paper and pencils.

You may also submit questions throughout the program on Twitter via the hashtag, chq2019.

You'll have a brief opportunity to meet this morning's interviewer Richard Blanco on the back porch of the amphitheater immediately following the lecture.

Please note that out of respect for as busy schedule we do limit the number of people admitted to the porch and ask that you keep your greetings brief.

At 3.30 p.m. today at the Shuttak-Wormins Club, Annie Store, yesterday's Heritage Lecture Series speaker and resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University will participate in this week's contemporary issues dialogue, seating is limited at the Women's Club.

This morning we welcomed students, teachers and staff from our Shuttak-Wormins School who are joining us for this our 7th Education Wednesday of the 2019 season.

We are so very thankful to have you with us today and hope we will see you again during the remaining weeks of the summer.

Finally out of respect for this morning's speakers and audience members around you and so that you're not that person in the eventual radio broadcast of this program, please silence your cell phones and refrain from using flash photography.

This concludes this morning's announcements. Support for this week's programs is provided by the Oliver and Mary Langenberg Lectureship Fund.

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