"Home," a Poem by Hannah Drake and Kentucky Students

“Home” was created as part of Kentucky to the World’s October 2022 program The State of Song: My Old Kentucky Home Faces a Changing World at The Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, where Drake sat on a panel with musicians Harry Pickens and Ben Sollee, led in conversation by Emily Bingham, the author of My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song. Together, the group dove into the past, present and future implications of the racist origins of Kentucky’s state song and concluded their discussion with the debut presentation of this poem.