Why It Matters that Renee Nicole Macklin Good Was a Poet | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.

"In the wake of the killing of Renee Nicole Macklin Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, MN, on January 7, confusing and often contradicting information swiftly spread, from the murdered woman's name to whether she was a volunteer observer of ICE activity in her neighborhood when she was shot, shortly after dropping off her young son at school. The Trump administration has also repeatedly attempted to deny, discredit, and"

"In the poem, the narrator wrestles with two guiding principles of her life, faith and science, along with childhood wonder and adult knowledge: it's the ruler by which i reduce all things now; hard-edged & splintering from knowledge that used to sit, a cloth against fevered forehead. can i let them both be? this fickle faith and this college science that heckles from the back of the classroom"

Renee Nicole Macklin Good was killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis on January 7, shortly after dropping off her young son at school. Conflicting information circulated about her name and whether she was a volunteer observer of ICE activity. The Trump administration repeatedly sought to deny, discredit, and mischaracterize videos recorded at the scene that show an ICE agent shooting the woman in her car. Good was a musician and poet who won a 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize while studying at Old Dominion University. Her prize-winning poem grapples with faith, science, childhood wonder, and adult knowledge, and she sang in high school while majoring in English.

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