List of U.S. state poems

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This is the list of poems in the U.S. states.

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]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "I Am Florida". www.iamflorida.org. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  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. ↑ "AN ACT To enact R.S. 49:155.6, relative to state symbols; to provide the state cultural poem to be "I Am Louisiana" by Paul Ott; and to provide for related matters". Archived from the original on 2020-07-20.
  8. ↑ "CIS: State Symbols". Archived from the original on 2004-07-27. Retrieved 2025-09-27.
  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". Archived from the original on 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  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. ↑ "Tennessee Symbols and Honors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  18. ↑ "Tennessee Symbols and Honors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
  19. ↑ "Senate concurrent resolution" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-20.
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