Poet Renee Nicole Good, winner of the American Academy of American Poets Prize, explored themes of life, birth, and death in her work. Her poem "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" reflects on existence as a union of ovum and sperm. Good was fatally shot by an immigration agent in Minneapolis. Federal officials defended the agent's actions as self-defense, while city and state officials disputed this, calling the accounts 'propaganda'.