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In celebration of National Poetry Month, Penguin Group's Diversity Committee held a poetry contest. The winner by unanimous vote is "ALLEN GINSBERG SIGHTING, 1988" by Jeffrey Freiert, Copywriter in Berkeley's editorial department.

ALLEN GINSBERG SIGHTING, 1988

One of the best minds of an older generation
sat in the Kiev, that East Village diner

not starving, hysterical, or naked
but clothed, calm, and eating babka.

From the street we peered through the glass
to watch the bald, bearded poet nosh.

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To wrap up our celebration of National Poetry Month we've listed the ten great poems we shared in April via our Twitter Feed (ordered newest to oldest)!

1. "Spleen" by Arthur Symons from the Penguin Classics book DECADENT POETRY
   
   Listen: http://song.ly/4ajo


2. "Untitled poem" by Filipino poet Jose Garcia Villa from the Penguin Classics DOVEGLION: COLLECTED POEMS
   
   Listen: http://song.ly/3tyh


3. "At the Window" by American poet T.S. Eliot from the Penguin Classics THE WASTE LAND AND OTHER POEMS
   
   Listen: http://song.ly/3jic