renee nicole good: Renee Nicole Good remembered as a prize-winning poet — here’s the award-winning poem she wrote

Poet and mother Renee Nicole Good, 37, was killed during a shootout with ICE agents in Minneapolis. He lived just a few blocks from where the shooting occurred. Witness statements and videos describe a tense encounter with federal officers. As details continued to emerge, attention turned to who Good was beyond the moment of his death.

Known for his award-winning writings, he received the Academy of American Poets Award in 2020. According to a report by Literary Hub, his poem “On Learning to Dismember Fetal Pigs” now stands as part of his legacy.

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What happened in Minneapolis today?

Renee Nicole Good was killed earlier today during a shootout involving ICE agents in south Minneapolis, not far from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, an ICE agent “shot and killed a woman during a morning confrontation between community members and federal officers in south Minneapolis.”

Witnesses said agents ordered Good to exit his vehicle. In the video footage, police officers can be seen surrounding the car, first turning back and then moving forward. “It turned out that an agent fired multiple shots into the car,” the report stated. According to Literary Hub’s report, the incident occurred in broad daylight and was seen by local residents.
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Beyond the headlines, who was Renee Nicole Good?

Good was 37 and the mother of a six-year-old son. Her now-private Instagram bio described her as “Poet, writer, wife, mother, and shitty guitar player from Colorado living in Minneapolis, Minnesota.” His friends and readers knew him for his words rather than for his tragedy.

In 2020, she won the Academy of American Poets Award for writing under the name Renée Nicole Macklin. The award was given to his poem “On Learning to Dismember Fetal Pigs,” which blends memory, science, faith and doubt with striking sincerity and sensitivity.

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Here is the award-winning poem he wrote

Following his death, readers returned to the poetry that brought him national recognition. The work unfolds quietly and personally, drawing readers into a world shaped by learning and loss. Taken from Poetry Literature Magazine.

On Learning to Dismember Fetal Pigs
By Renee Nicole Macklin

I want my rocking chairs back

solipsistic sunsets,

and coastal forest sounds of cicadas’ hairy legs in iambic pentameter and the sounds of cicadas.

I donated Bibles to second hand stores

(I crushed them in plastic garbage bags with an acid himalayan salt lamp—

post-baptismal Bibles, plucked from street corners by the meaty hands of fanatics, simplified, easy-to-read, parasitic types):

remember more the slippery rubber smell of glossy biology textbook illustrations; They burned the hair inside my nostrils

and the salt and ink on my palms.

At two forty-five in the morning I work under the clippings of the moon and repeat

ribosome

endoplasmic

lactic acid

stamen

At the IHOP at the corner of Powers and Stetson Hills—

I repeated and scribbled until it took its course and stopped somewhere I could no longer point, perhaps my instincts—
Maybe there is a murky stream of my soul between my pancreas and my large intestine.

This is the ruler by which I now reduce everything; formerly splintered and sharp-edged from knowledge, it lay like a cloth upon the fiery brow.

Can I let both happen? this wavering faith and this university science that comes from behind the class

I can’t believe it now—

The Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad Gita “make room for curiosity” as my mother used to do, sliding her long hair behind my ear and breathing through her mouth –

All my understanding flows from my chin to my chest and boils down to this:

life is just

egg and sperm

and where these two meet

and how often and how well

and what dies there.

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FAQ

Who was Renee Nicole Good?
She was an award-winning poet, author, and mother living in Minneapolis.

Which poem is he known for?
He won the Academy of American Poets Award for his work “On Learning to Dismember Fetal Pigs.”