Poets for Good, Honoring Poet Renee Good
Sun Jan 25 2026
Renee Good, 37 was fatally shot by an Ice Agent on January 7th in Minneapolis after dropping off her 6 year old son to school. She described herself as a "poet and writer and wife and mom."
Good’s death occurred at a time when U.S. Pres.Trump ordered some 2,000 ICE officers to be sent to Minneapolis as part of what an administration official called the “largest immigration operation ever.
In the days after Good’s death, thousands of people participated in protests against ICE in Minnesota and around the country.
Good studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and was awarded the school’s poetry prize in 2020. She won a 2020 Academy of American Poets University and College Prize, one of the top awards in the nation, for On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs.
GUEST POETS;
Jane Goette, An Old Song
Jessica Mardian, A little over a week after January 7th
Mark Fryburg, QUOTES
Erica Joiner,What They Have Wrought
Anne Deaton, Renee Good Has Gone to Wake the Dead…
Katryn Broadoak, Murdered Good
Skip Brown-(reading;) On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pig by Renée Nicole Macklin Good
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Renee Good, 37 was fatally shot by an Ice Agent on January 7th in Minneapolis after dropping off her 6 year old son to school. She described herself as a "poet and writer and wife and mom." Good’s death occurred at a time when U.S. Pres.Trump ordered some 2,000 ICE officers to be sent to Minneapolis as part of what an administration official called the “largest immigration operation ever. In the days after Good’s death, thousands of people participated in protests against ICE in Minnesota and around the country. Good studied creative writing at Old Dominion University in Virginia and was awarded the school’s poetry prize in 2020. She won a 2020 Academy of American Poets University and College Prize, one of the top awards in the nation, for On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs. GUEST POETS; Jane Goette, An Old Song Jessica Mardian, A little over a week after January 7th Mark Fryburg, QUOTES Erica Joiner,What They Have Wrought Anne Deaton, Renee Good Has Gone to Wake the Dead… Katryn Broadoak, Murdered Good Skip Brown-(reading;) On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pig by Renée Nicole Macklin Good