Poems about states?

[semiorobotics.livejournal.com]

A few weeks ago, someone posted Bob Hicok's "A Primer," about Michigan. (It's also available on the New Yorker website, here: http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2008/05/19/080519po_poem_hicok.)

Can anyone help me think of other poems about specific states? I know there must be more, but I'm drawing a mental blank. Thanks so much.

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[somerled.livejournal.com]

Slightly off topic, but this map:





shows the states enlarged according to how often they are mentioned in country music songs.

Someone should make a similar map showing the states sized according to how often they are mentioned in poetry.

Which states would you guess are mentioned most?

[semiorobotics.livejournal.com]

that's incredible! wow, thanks so much for showing me this.

[gh0stmeat.livejournal.com]

i guess new york.

[aimlesswanderer.livejournal.com]

There's one I posted about Detroit here:

http://community.livejournal.com/greatpoets/2377542.html?thread=8610118#t8610118

./w

[sectums3mpra.livejournal.com]

It's not poetry, persay, but I know the singer Sufjan Stevens is making albums about specific states. I think he wants to do one about each state, but has so far only done Illinois and Michigan.

[redcliches.livejournal.com]

...Not specifically about the state, but mentions it and describes the surroundings, I suppose.

Virginia (Charlottesville)
http://community.livejournal.com/theysaid/15414.html

North Carolina
http://community.livejournal.com/theysaid/1037342.html

He is from NC, but I'm asumming it's intended for the entire South as well
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4863506

North Carolina
http://community.livejournal.com/theysaid/1214216.html

Virginia
http://community.livejournal.com/theysaid/977490.html

The South in general
http://www.slate.com/id/2173367/

Mentions Virginia, Alaska, and Massachusetts
http://community.livejournal.com/theysaid/424202.html

California
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15430