Hannah Drake came to the studio to discuss her installation, Childhood Interrupted. Tune in to Artists Talk with LVA each Thursday at 10 am on 97.1 FM or Artxfm.com.
Hannah Drake is a blogger, podcast host, activist, public speaker, poet, and author of 11 books. She serves as the co-executive director of IDEAS xLab and co-founder of the (Un)Known Project, which seeks to discover the hidden names and stories of Black people enslaved in Kentucky and beyond. She writes commentary on politics, feminism, and race, and her writing has been featured online at Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, The Bitter Southerner, The Lily, and Harper’s Bazaar. In 2019, during Super Bowl Sunday, Hannah’s poem, "All You Had To Do Was Play The Game, Boy," which addresses the protest by Colin Kaepernick, was shared by film writer, producer, and director Ava DuVernay, and then shared by Kaepernick. The poem has been viewed more than two million times.
Her outdoor installation, Childhood Interrupted, has been presented at Riverside Farnsley Moremen Landing, Farmington, Locust Grove, and Oxmoor Farm.