Jump to content

List of U.S. state poems

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by 2604:2000:b949:a000:14fa:fccc:cbb7:bd6f (talk) at 02:40, 21 January 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

State State poem Citation/Year
Florida "I am Florida"
by Allen Autry Sr.
2010[1]
Indiana "Indiana"
by Arthur Franklin Mapes
[2]
Kentucky "My Old Kentucky Home"
by Stephen C. Foster
[3]
Louisiana "America, We The People"
by Sylvia Davidson Lott Buckley
(State judicial poem)
1995[4]
"Leadership"
by Jean McGivney Boese
(State Senate poem)
1999[5]
Massachusetts "Blue Hills of Massachusetts"
by Katherine E. Mullen
1981[6][7]
New Mexico "A Nuevo México"
by Luis Tafoya
North Carolina "The Tar Heel Toast"
by Leonora Martin and Mary Burke Kerr
(official toast)
1957[8]
Oklahoma "Howdy Folks: The Official Will Rogers Poem"
by David Randolph Milsten
[9]
Tennessee "Oh Tennessee, My Tennessee"
by Admiral William Lawrence
[10]

See also

References

  1. ^ "I Am Florida". www.iamflorida.org. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  2. ^ IHB: 404
  3. ^ Kentucky State Song
  4. ^ LL 155.4
  5. ^ LL 155.5
  6. ^ http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf1a.htm
  7. ^ Massachusetts State Poem
  8. ^ "Official State Symbols of North Carolina". North Carolina State Library. State of North Carolina. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
  9. ^ State Poem
  10. ^ Music, Art and Drama - TN.gov