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Fall 2011 • Vol. XXXIII No. 4 • Poetry |

Annunciation as Right Whale with Kelp Gulls

By Mary Szybist

The gulls have learned to feed on the whales. …The proportion of whales attacked annually has soared from 1% in 1974 to 78% today.

—BBC News

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Mary Szybist is the author of Incarnadine (Graywolf Press, 2013), winner of the 2013 National Book Award. She teaches at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.

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