List of U.S. state poems explained

State	State poem	Citation/Year	-			None^[1] -->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->
Florida	"I am Florida" by Allen Autry Sr.	2010^[2]
-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->
		1963^[3] ^[4]	-			-->	-			-->
		^[5]
	"America, We The People" by Sylvia Davidson Lott Buckley (State judicial poem)	1995^[6]
	"Leadership" by Jean McGivney Boese (State Senate poem)	1999^[7]
	"I Am Louisiana" by Paul Ott (State cultural poem)	2006^[8]	-			-->	-			-->
	"Blue Hills of Massachusetts" by Katherine E. Mullen	1981^[9] ^[10]	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->
New Mexico	"A Nuevo México" by Luis Tafoya	1991^[11]	-			-->
North Carolina	"The Tar Heel Toast" by Leonora Martin and Mary Burke Kerr (State toast)	1957^[12]	-			-->	-			-->
	"Howdy Folks: The Official Will Rogers Poem" by David Randolph Milsten	1941^[13] ^[14]	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->
Tennessee		1973^[15] ^[16]
	"Who We Are" by Margaret Britton Vaughn (State bicentennial poem)	1997^[17]
	"Home to Stay" by Jasper N. Bailey (State veterans' poem)	2014^[18]
	"I Am Tennessee" by Major Hooper Penuel (State declamation)	1987^[19]
	"Legend of Old Stone Ranch" by John Worth Cloud (State epic poem)	1969^[20]	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->
		None^[21]	-			-->	-			-->	-			-->

See also

• Lists of U.S. state insignia

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alabama Emblems, Symbols and Honors . 2007-03-19 . 2006-04-20 . Alabama Department of Archives & History.
2. Web site: I Am Florida. www.iamflorida.org. 9 January 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140109215103/http://iamflorida.org/. 9 January 2014. dead.
3. http://www.statelib.lib.in.us/www/ihb/emblems/embpoem.html IHB: 404
4. Web site: Indiana State Poem. 7 December 2020.
5. http://www.50states.com/songs/kentucky.htm Kentucky State Song
6. LL 155.4
7. LL 155.5
8. https://legis.la.gov/Legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=406386
9. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/cis/cismaf/mf1a.htm
10. http://www.masshome.com/mapoem.html Massachusetts State Poem
11. Web site: State Poem – Spanish | Maggie Toulouse Oliver - New Mexico Secretary of State .
12. Web site: Official State Symbols of North Carolina . State of North Carolina . North Carolina State Library . 2008-01-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080206210322/http://statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us/NC/SYMBOLS/SYMBOLS.HTM . 2008-02-06 . dead .
13. http://www.state.ok.us/osfdocs/stpoem.html State Poem
14. Web site: Oklahoma Symbols.
15. http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/homework/art.html Music, Art and Drama – TN.gov
16. Web site: Tennessee: Official State Poems (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress). Library of Congress.
17. http://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/100/Bill/HB0545.pdf
18. Web site: Archived copy . 2020-07-20 . 2020-07-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200718125314/https://sos.tn.gov/sites/default/files/Pgs.%20599-627%20TN%20Symbols.pdf . dead .
19. Web site: Archived copy . 2020-07-20 . 2020-07-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200718125314/https://sos.tn.gov/sites/default/files/Pgs.%20599-627%20TN%20Symbols.pdf . dead .
20. https://lrl.texas.gov/LASDOCS/61CS1/SCR8/SCR8_61CS1.pdf
21. Web site: Symbols of Washington State . Washington State Legislature . 2007-03-11 . 2007-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070305110012/http://www1.leg.wa.gov/Legislature/StateSymbols/ . dead .