Poetic Obituaries: "I remember making those walks with her

through the LSU campus back in the '60s and having racial remarks shouted at us through the dorm windows," her son [Gordon Lane] recounted.

After earning her Ph.D., [Pinkie Gordon] Lane was promoted to full professor at Southern and was head of the English department there from 1974 until her retirement in 1986.

from The Advocate: Former state poet laureate Pinkie Gordon Lane dead

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