List of U.S. state poems
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[18] | |
Texas | "Legend of Old Stone Ranch" by John Worth Cloud (State epic poem) | 1969[19] |
Washington | None[20] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "I Am Florida". www.iamflorida.org. Archived from the original on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ IHB: 404 Archived 2006-08-18 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Indiana State Poem". 7 December 2020.
- ^ Kentucky State Song
- ^ LL 155.4
- ^ LL 155.5
- ^ https://legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=406386 [bare URL PDF]
- ^ http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf1a.htm
- ^ Massachusetts State Poem
- ^ "State Poem – Spanish | Maggie Toulouse Oliver - New Mexico Secretary of State".
- ^ "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.
- ^ State Poem Archived 2011-12-24 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Oklahoma Symbols".
- ^ Music, Art and Drama – TN.gov Archived 2006-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Tennessee: Official State Poems (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)". Library of Congress.
- ^ http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/100/Bill/HB0545.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-07-20.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ https://lrl.texas.gov/LASDOCS/61CS1/SCR8/SCR8_61CS1.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ "Symbols of Washington State". Washington State Legislature. Archived from the original on 2007-03-05. Retrieved 2007-03-11.