‘Her absence roars’: Peter Dinklage honors Renee Nicole Good with a poem at public event

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Actor Peter Dinklage honored Renee Nicole Good with a moving poem at a New York vigil. Good, a 37-year-old mother of three and aspiring poet, was fatally shot by a Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent during an operation in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026.

Dinklage used the poem to highlight how deeply Good’s absence will be felt and to celebrate her lasting spirit through vivid images of grief and resilience.

Peter Dinklage honors Renee Nicole Good at vigil

Peter Dinklage took the stage at a public vigil and delivered a powerful reading of a poem to honor Renee Nicole Good. The poem, “For Renee Nicole Good, Killed by ICE on January 7, 2026,” was written by Amanda Gorman.

At the start, Dinklage read in a somber tone: “They say she is no more, that her absence roars, blood-blown like a rose, iced wheels flinched & froze.”

The 'Game of Thrones' star continued with emotionally intense lines about candlelit vigils, flowers, and hymns of protest, painting a picture of how Good’s spirit lives on even in deep grief.

He said, “Now bear a riot of candles, Dark Fury of flowers, pure howling of hymns. And for us, she arose somewhere in the pitch deep of our grief. Crouches our power, the howl, where we begin straining upon the edge of the crooked crater of the worst of what we have been.”

Dinklage urged the audience to believe that real change comes when people’s passion and anger are guided by love and hope, and he spoke of Good’s memory as a force that “will never be fully gone.”

"Changes only possible and all the greater when the labor and bitter anger of our neighbors is moved by the love and better angels of our nature. What they call Death and void. We know breath and voice.”

He concluded, “In the end gorgeously endures and enormity. You could believe it departed to be the dawn. When the blank Knight has so long stood. But our bright-fled angles will never be fully gone? When they forever are fiercely Good.” 

Celebrities slam ICE after Minnesota shooting

Many actors and musicians have publicly criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal agent during an enforcement operation in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Good was killed when an ICE officer fired into her vehicle as she tried to drive away.

Recently, singer Rosanne Cash urged fans who support the Trump administration to unfollow her after condemning the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and saying federal agents are “too busy shooting private citizens.”

Actress Eva Longoria also spoke out, wrongly claiming that ICE agents are “blatantly murdering citizens,” while 'Breaking Bad' star Giancarlo Esposito encouraged people to join a “revolution” against ICE. Esposito added controversial remarks suggesting that even if millions were killed, “the rest of us would survive.”