Tusiata Avia, Poet.

Tusiata Avia was our guest visitor for the 22^nd of last month, Robert was not present because he was in Mumbai, for the International Literary Festival. She is a poet and performer and has been on the since since the early 2000's. She read out aloud few of her poems from her book, “Wild Dogs Under My Skirt.” where I felt a real connection to being a young Samoan woman. It was the voice of home and I was able to relate to some of the pieces. We asked her questions about she first gotten her book of poems published and the process of going through it all with her publisher and so forth. Tusiata told us about not giving up when it came to dreams like these, she would tell us about how she performed poetry overseas and how even though the crowd did not speak or understand English they were still able to connect to it. The universal language was poetry. It felt great to get advice from Tusiata who has travelled the world and experienced it all at the same time, living and breathing her work across the world.