Kenny Buckner, a 2015 graduate of Holy Innocents' Episcopal School and, the 2015-2016 Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate, can now add author to his list of achievements. Buckner's first book of poems. "Dreaming After the Truth," has been published by Penmanship Books. Buckner, is a Posse Scholar and a rising sophomore at Syracuse University.

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