List of U.S. state poems

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

State	State poem	Citation/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 [17]
Texas	"Legend of Old Stone Ranch" by John Worth Cloud (State epic poem)	1969 [18]

See also

• Lists of U.S. state insignia

References

1. "I Am Florida". www.iamflorida.org. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
2. "Indiana State Emblems - state poem". www.statelib.lib.in.us. Archived from the original on August 18, 2006.
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. Devlin, Owen F. "Massachusetts State Poem". www.masshome.com.
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". www.state.ok.us. Archived from the original on December 24, 2011.
13. "Oklahoma Symbols". Archived from the original on 2021-05-11. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
14. "Tennesseeanytime.org". www.tennesseeanytime.org. Archived from the original on June 15, 2006.
15. "Tennessee: Official State Poems (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)". Library of Congress .
16. "AN ACT to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 4, Chapter 1, Part 3, to designate Who We Are by Margaret Britton Vaughn as the official Tennessee Bicentennial poem" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-08-03.
17. "Tennessee Symbols and Honors" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
18. "Senate concurrent resolution" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-20.