Tayari's Blog: RIP Pinkie Gordon Lane

Posted by TayariJones on December 4, 2008 12:36 PM
Filed under Current Events


There's no link available yet, but I have heard it from a very reliable source-- namely, my Uncle Wilbert-- that poet Pinkie Gordon Lane has passed away at age 85. Those of us who are Spelman women knew of our sister from the class of 1949 before Nina Long recited her "Lyric: I am Looking At Music" in everybody's favorite movie, Love Jones. She was the first African=American Poet Laureate of the state of Louisiana.

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