Whether through poetry or song, we’ll shout it loud and clear, we love Kalamazoo! In 1942, Glenn Miller and his orchestra expressed their love for our great town with “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo.” Almost 40 years later in 1980, the Kalamazoo Friends of Poetry painted walls across Kalamazoo with murals of poems. Many of the murals can still be seen today on buildings throughout the ‘Zoo. If you can’t go out to scout them, we have a few other Kalamazoo-focused poems and songs for you to enjoy.

• The Kalamazoo Poem | 4th Graders of Woodward School for Technology and Research
• The Michigan Poem | Kinetic Affect
• The Sins of Kalamazoo | Carl Sandberg
• I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo | Glenn Miller
• Fast Left Hand | Ray Wylie Hubbard featuring The Cadillac Three
• Any Ole Stretch of Blacktop | Shenandoah
• Gotta Get Away | The Black Keys
• Down On The Corner | Creedence Clearwater Revival
• Kalamazoo | Ben Folds
• Kalamazoo | Primus
• Kalamazoo | Paul Russell, Jon Keith, TROSSTHEGIANT
• Kalamazoo | The Show Ponies
• Gonna Write a Letter | Waylon Jennings
• Della and the Dealer | Hoyt Axton
• I’ve Been Everywhere | Johnny Cash
• Turnpike Tom | Steve Goodman
• Mary Lou | Bob Seger
• I can’t stand L.A. | Bowling for Soup
• Roots, Rap, Reggae | RUN-D.M.C.