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Ria Masae

Ria Masae is a writer, poet, and spoken word artist of Samoan descent, born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau (the native Māori name for Auckland) in Aotearoa / New Zealand. Her work has been published in various Aotearoa literary outlets and theatre productions, including the country’s foremost and longest-running journal, Landfall, and Best New Zealand Poems (2017 and 2020). Ria also has poetry published on the Mexican poetry website, Circulo de Poesía. In 2020 a collection of her poems, titled, 'What she Sees From Atop the Mauga', was one of three collections chosen for publication by Auckland University Press’, AUP New Poets 7.

Party Girls Aren’t Supposed to Hurt

so laugh vibrate the walls with your sonic hysterics skol be the pulse of the celebration ba-Boom ba-Boom ba-Boom cheeehooo! skol drink big men under the table last woman standing she’s a bit of an alright, aye skol outwit gutter …

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