Michael Salinger is founding curriculum director of the Slam U program at Playhouse Square Foundation and the founder of Poetry Slam Inc. and SUNY Oneonta's Poetry Cross Training Conference. He is the coauthor (with Sara Holbrook) of Outspoken! How to Improve Writing and Speaking Through Poetry Performance (Heinemann 2009).Eric Schwitzgebel, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, is theco-author (with Russell T. Hurlburt) of Describing Inner Experience? Proponent MeetsSkeptic (MIT Press, 2007).