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Student poets spit verse at SFU’s inaugural Grand Poetry Slam

The English Student Union (ESU) held their first annual Grand Poetry Slam on Thursday, November 13 at Highland Pub on SFU’s Burnaby campus. The upper level of the pub was filled at the event’s beginning, with a group of about 25 sticking around until its end, including the entire ESU executive committee. The event featured more than 10 poets from English, sociology, French, communications, and business departments. Some were very expressive, some reserved, and many presented two or more poems. Hussan Riasat, ESU president, said, “I wasn’t expecting this many people, and I wasn’t expecting this many people to actually…

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