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Fourth-year student Alberto Loaiza and third-year student Kevin Yang will both graduate in June after working together on poetry through the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational. (Hannah Ye/Daily Bruin senior staff)

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Some friends finish each other’s sentences, but Alberto Loaiza and Kevin Yang finish lines of each other’s poetry. Loaiza, a fourth-year English and Chicana/o studies student, and Yang, a third-year world arts and cultures and African American studies student, are two of four members of UCLA’s slam poetry team and staff members for The Word on Wednesday, the Cultural Affairs Commission’s open-mic poetry group.

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Poets’ bond paves the way for sharing experiences as people of color

By Gabriella Kamran

June 5, 2016 12:36 p.m.