Capital Verses Featured Grand Slam Poetry Champion at Madison College’s Goodman South Campus

We’re celebrating our love for the spoken word to uplift and inspire with Andre Bradford a.k.a. S.C. Says and community poets.

Capital Verses kicked off the festival on Thursday, April 11 at Madison College Goodman South Campus. Talented Madison-based community poets joined in on an open mic session.

S.C. Says is an Austin-based slam poet who has been performing slam poetry since 2013. He's toured and featured at venues and universities across the country, and his work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Write About Now, The Edge radio, The Culture Trip, and Blavity. He is a two-time Austin Poetry Slam Champion, the 2022 Texas Grand Slam Champion, and is the author of the poetry collection Golden Brown Skin. 

His poetry covers a gamut of topics ranging from being mixed race, to social justice, to mental health awareness, to never settling in relationships.