Lucien Quincy Senna

View

User login

About

Name:

Lucien Quincy Senna

First Name:

Lucien Quincy

Last Name:

Senna

First Name:

Lucien Quincy

Last Name:

Senna

Location:

Oxford, England

Gender:

Female

Stats

Favorite Font:

Times New Roman

Favorite Place to Write:

By hand at home.

Favorite Place to Read:

My bed or the local library.

Best time of day to write:

Whenever it slaps me.

Bio/Mission

I have two teens and one tween. I'm glad I started this motherhood business early because now it's my time to unleash my literary talents upon cyberspace. Richard and I went to uni together and hooked up via his roomie Kevin Young, the poet, who co-edited a magazine with me called "Diaspora." Sadly after the first edition, I did my own diaspora and went into permanent exile in a country governed by a monarchy and a rotten coalition government. All in the name of blind love of course. I got stuck in Oxford after I studied and received an MA at the University in kJurisprudence (the snobbery of Oxonians is unbelievable -- they couldn't just call the course LAW!) I was one of 5 black law students in a class of 300. No there is no affirmative action here. I can be very depressing, angry, political, and loving like all of us. I am still working on a book which seems like it has taken 5 years so I went back to poetry.i have just published an ebook on Amazon under Collected Poems.

Inspirations

My favourite writers include Oscar Wilde, Nietzche, Plato, Toni Morrison, Paul Celan, Dostoyevsky, James Baldwin, Shakespeare, Trotsky, Marquez, Celine, Graham Greene, Joyce, Yukio Mishima, too many others to list. Beautiful language and insight into the human condition, which is currently evil to the core, gets me going. I want this wonderful place to be around for our kids and theirs. I am also influenced by music, jazz, rap, soul, classical anything but country music and hard rock. I've been told my poetry has a rhythm so it must be the influence of the music. I'm proud to carry the name Senna, because of the driver (no other Senna except my father). He and I are very close. He was the one who told me "I could do anything." and that is important for girls and boys to hear alot. And sometimes I can be like the great deceased Senna himself. "Fast, furious, and focused."((bismillah)