List of U.S. state poems
Appearance
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
- ^ "I Am Florida". www.iamflorida.org. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ IHB: 404
- ^ Kentucky State Song
- ^ LL 155.4
- ^ LL 155.5
- ^ http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf1a.htm
- ^ Massachusetts State Poem
- ^ "Official State Symbols of North Carolina". North Carolina State Library. State of North Carolina. Retrieved 2008-01-26.
- ^ State Poem
- ^ Music, Art and Drama - TN.gov