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Literary world mourns loss of Renee Nicole Good’s poetry – Sat, 10 Jan 2026 PST

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MINNEAPOLIS — Minneapolis poet laureate Junauda Petrus was reading her poem “Ritual on How to Love Minneapolis Again” to students in a south Minneapolis grade school classroom in October when an impatient voice piped up. “This is a long poem,” the boy said. The little voice belonged to the son of Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother, poet and community activist killed by an ICE agent Jan. …