List of U.S. state poems

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StateState poemCitation/Year
Florida "I am Florida"
by Allen Autry Sr.
2010 [1]
Indiana "Indiana"
by Arthur Franklin Mapes
1963 [2] [3]
Kentucky "My Old Kentucky Home"
by Stephen C. Foster
[4]
Louisiana "America, We The People"
by Sylvia Davidson Lott Buckley
(State judicial poem)
1995 [5]
"Leadership"
by Jean McGivney Boese
(State Senate poem)
1999 [6]
"I Am Louisiana"
by Paul Ott
(State cultural poem)
2006 [7]
Massachusetts "Blue Hills of Massachusetts"
by Katherine E. Mullen
1981 [8] [9]
New Mexico "A Nuevo México"
by Luis Tafoya
1991 [10]
North Carolina "The Tar Heel Toast"
by Leonora Martin and Mary Burke Kerr
(State toast)
1957 [11]
Oklahoma "Howdy Folks: The Official Will Rogers Poem"
by David Randolph Milsten
1941 [12] [13]
Tennessee "Oh Tennessee, My Tennessee"
by Admiral William Lawrence
1973 [14] [15]
"Who We Are"
by Margaret Britton Vaughn
(State bicentennial poem)
1997 [16]
"Home to Stay"
by Jasper N. Bailey
(State veterans' poem)
2014 [17]
"I Am Tennessee"
by Major Hooper Penuel
(State declamation)
1987 [18]
Texas "Legend of Old Stone Ranch"
by John Worth Cloud
(State epic poem)
1969 [19]
Washington None [20]

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  2. IHB: 404 Archived 2006-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
  3. "Indiana State Poem". 7 December 2020.
  4. Kentucky State Song
  5. LL 155.4
  6. LL 155.5
  7. https://legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=406386 [ bare URL PDF ]
  8. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf1a.htm
  9. Massachusetts State Poem
  10. "State Poem – Spanish | Maggie Toulouse Oliver - New Mexico Secretary of State".
  11. "Official State Symbols of North Carolina". North Carolina State Library. State of North Carolina. Archived from the original on 2008-02-06. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
  12. State Poem Archived 2011-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
  13. "Oklahoma Symbols".
  14. Music, Art and Drama – TN.gov Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
  15. "Tennessee: Official State Poems (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)". Library of Congress .
  16. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/100/Bill/HB0545.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  17. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  19. https://lrl.texas.gov/LASDOCS/61CS1/SCR8/SCR8_61CS1.pdf [ bare URL PDF ]
  20. "Symbols of Washington State". Washington State Legislature. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-03-11.