National Review Online has been discussing the, um, unusual Mr. Baraka, New Jersey's own state
poet laureate, "an aging sixties black radical". Kathryn Jean Lopez asks if every state has a state poet laureate.

Well.

Do we have a state poet laureate? This is California. We have a state everything.

We have a state:

+bird
+animal
+dance
+fife and drum corps
+color (it's blue and gold. Yes, I know that's two colors. You won't find a state mathematician on the list.)
+fish
+flag
+flower
+dance
+folk dance
+fossil (No, it's not Gray Davis. Nice try, though.)
+gemstone
+marine fish
+marine mammal
+insect (Nope. Still not Gray Davis. It's the dogface butterfly)
+mineral
+motto
+nickname (No, it isn't. It's "The Golden State". Now stop that.)
+prehistoric artifact
+reptile (Could be Gray Davis. But I really think you're just guessing now.)
+rock
+seal
+soil (Yes! Official state dirt!)
+theatre
+tree

. . . .and finally, yes, we have a poet laureate. Since 1966 it's been Charles B. Garrigus.
No, I never heard of him either. But I don't get out much.

You can find all this on our official state website.

Gray Davis is probably on there, too. Somewhere. I didn't look for him. You can look if you want.
I wouldn't advise it, though.