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SAN FRANCISCO, CA, JULY 16, 1997 | Salon Internet, Inc., the acclaimed online magazine, is pleased to announce the inclusion of a month-long silent Web auction in its magazine beginning today for a signed edition of Allen Ginsberg's "Illuminated Poems."

Bound in black cloth and baring a gold foil imprint on the front cover, this special edition of Allen Ginsberg's "Illuminated Poems" was donated by publisher Four Walls Eight Windows.

Readers are invited to participate in the silent virtual auction which will benefit Teachers & Writers Collaborative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping students, parents and teachers improve their writing skills and learn to write more imaginatively.

Throughout the '60s, Allen Ginsberg developed a muscular sense of himself as activist and counterculture hero: He protested the Vietnam War, tested LSD with Timothy Leary, participated in Ken Kesey's Acid Test Festivals in San Francisco and was a key figure at the Chicago Democratic Convention anti-war protests of 1968. Probably best known for his poem "Howl," Ginsberg passed away in April of this year.

"It's a natural for Salon to be involved with this type of promotion. Ginsberg represented not only freedom of the press, but he and his peers such as Jack Kerouac, captured the essence of the beatnik era salon," said Marc Wernick, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for Salon. "And as we continue to build our community of forward-thinking and intellectually-curious readers through promotions and other means, it is all that more rewarding for the outcome to be beneficial to a nonprofit educational organization such as Teachers & Writers Collaborative."

Salon is an interactive magazine of books, arts, travel and ideas. Salon features original writing by respected thinkers on topics ranging from arts and entertainment to technology and politics. Salon also features Table Talk, the second most popular reader forum on the Internet.

Salon has received major awards and accolades, including Time magazine's "Best Web Site of 1996," Advertising Age's "Online Magazine of the Year" and the Web magazine's 1997 Webby Award for "Best Books/Magazine Web Site." Founded in November 1995, Salon received initial funding from Adobe and Hambrecht & Quist.

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