Augusta, GA
Built from the
ground up.
Travis "Brotha Trav Tha Godbrotha" Wright didn't write his first poem until he was 27. A lost job in Northern Virginia brought him home to Augusta — a city with no spoken word scene. So he built one. Handprinted flyers, a Broad Street culture shop, and a belief that people would show up. They did.
In 2012, the City of Augusta made history by naming him its first-ever Poet Laureate — not just for his poetry, but for the community he'd spent fifteen years building one night at a time.
In 2013, Brotha Trav survived an aortic dissection — airlifted from Augusta to Emory. He calls it his greatest struggle and his greatest blessing. It's the lived truth behind every word he speaks from the stage.
Today he performs most often in cafe settings — intimate, jazz-warm rooms where spoken word lives closest to the soul. His weekly radio show Hidden Gems reaches listeners in over 150 countries. His work never stops.
Performing
on Radio
Laureate
