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  • Renee Nicole Good’s Award-Winning Poem: Read in Full (It’s awful, Jim)

    01/10/2026 3:33:31 PM PST · by DoodleBob · 62 replies
    Newsweek ^ | January 9, 2026 | Mandi Taheri
    Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old Minneapolis poet, wife and mother, was shot and killed Wednesday by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer, setting off nationwide protests over the officer’s actions and the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement policies. Good’s poem, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” was the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize winner at Old Dominion University. ….. Her poem “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs” was selected from about two dozen submissions as a prize winner. The poem reads (stylized as per https://poets.org/2020-on-learning-to-dissect-fetal-pigs):