Dear womxn, this is your night ✨
Join us for this special edition of Strands of Home – a gathering inspired by @poetryireland and created in celebration of Poetry Day Ireland.
We’re returning to The Chapel at Swords Castle, thanks to @librariesfingal where we’ll explore what home feels like in our bodies, our hair, our shared histories, and the places we return to for comfort when the world gets loud.
This is a womxn-only space, where care is given and received through the hands, stories, and voices of the womxn present.
The only requirement we have is that you come as you are, let your hair down as we explore what home is together.
Event is free to attend, but grab your tickets to secure your spot!
📅 Thursday 28th of May
⏰ 6-8pm
🔗 Tickets & more info in our bio
#poetrycommunity #poetry #dublinpoet #poet
May is a fun filled month around here! 💃🏾💃🏾
We are excited to announce that Rough Draft Poetry will be taking part in the @africadayireland celebrations in Dublin next Sunday!
A huge thank you to @leon_diop_ and @black_andirish for giving us this amazing opportunity to bring this unique lineup of poets to join the spoken word stage.
We can’t wait to celebrate our beautiful cultures with everyone through this carefully crafted conversation and shared experiences.
So… are you going to be there?
Or are you GOING to be there??! 👀
📅 Sunday 17th of May
⏰ 2-3pm
📍 Royal Hospital Kilmainham
#africaday2026 #dublinpoet #poet
Didn’t we promise you a fun-filled month of May?😆
As with the many celebrations of Africa Day throughout the country this month, we looked no further for inspiration for Draft 6!
This time, we’re bringing the full Rough Draft experience to Blanchardstown Library as we celebrate the beauty of Africa as a continent rich in abundance, culture, creativity and most importantly—COMMUNITY!
The African story is one of poetry, music, art and dance. It is the story that birthed this community itself. And more than anything, it is a story of invitation and so, we are incredibly excited to have you join us for this special edition.
As always, Rough Draft is a space for communal reflections so we ask that you come share, come learn and just simply—come be with us.
📅 Monday 25th of May
⏰ 5 -7:45pm
📍 Blanchardstown Library
Follow the link in our bio for tickets
💜🌳Poetry in the Park🌳💜
Something thats been on the radar for awhile.
Poetry, nature, community, connection and of course a picnic(bring your own)🌳☕️🤍🖋🌄👩🏻🍳☀️
Hopefully the sun shines😎
Excited for this event, St Catherine's Park holds a very special place in my heart, if you have never been, check it out, its a beautiful place to explore.
Satutday 23rd May
12-2.30pm
Sluice carpark entrance, opposite McDonald's Lucan.
Leave no trace policy, bring your own litter home or put in nearby bin.
Register your place on eventbrite. Link in bio.
Bloom has our hearts so full that we’re struggling to find a caption to capture how precious this moment felt.
A huge thank you to Kayla and the team @librariesfingal for helping us bring this vision to life.
And to @subhashinigoda.dance and @ayonetee we have to specially thank you for blessing us with your artistry which grounded the space in such a beautiful way.
We’re deeply grateful to everyone who showed up and shared a piece of themselves with us. Many people demonstrated what courage truly is—sharing vulnerabilities, permitting ourselves to be seen, and allowing others to find themselves reflected in our stories.
This event was a witness to people blooming together, in their own time, and season 🌸❤️
Thank you for #Draft5 💐
#poetrycommunity
A dose of positivity to start your week? ✨
Here’s a story of how it all started:
@anikebeloved tweeted: “What has poetry looked like for you this October?” - shortly after our Draft 1 @roughdraft.poetry@that_yorubagehl responded: “Poetry looked like community for me this month.”
And just like that, poetry demonstrated its power in connecting people and bridging more communities to each other. Like a domino effect, Anike’s question sparked the creation of our weekly Wednesday poetry spaces on X, where a new community was born. That same energy eventually led to a physical gathering of Draft One in Lagos too.
Writers are bridges, and the true mark of our artistry lies in what our words create.
We are so grateful to have Anike as our Co-host in Lagos. Quite literally, without you, Rough Draft Nigeria wouldn’t be what it is today. Thank you for your wisdom, time and dedication to this family.
You truly embody what we mean when we say “Love is a Mirror”
#poetrycommunity
