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Gretchen Primack

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Poetry, Memoir

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Gretchen Primack is the author, most recently, of KIND, a collection of poems about animals and our relationship to them (Post Traumatic Press 2013). She's also the co-author of "The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farmed Animals" with Jenny Brown (Penguin Avery 2012).

Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Massachusetts Review, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, Poet Lore, and many other journals. KIND is most readily available through her website (she's not an Amazon fan) at www.gretchenprimack.com/books. ...more

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	The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals by Jenny Brown (Goodreads Author), Gretchen Primack (Goodreads Author) 4.37 avg rating — 440 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Kind: Poems by Gretchen Primack (Goodreads Author), Susan Siegel (Illustrator) 4.67 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Visiting Days 4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	SRPR, Spoon River Poetry Review, 41.2, Winter 2016 by Spoon River Poetry Review, Kirstin Hotelling Zona (Editor), G.C. Waldrep (Contributor) 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Slow Creaking of Planets liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doris' Red Spaces it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Union it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Kindness: Origami Poems Project 2016 Kindness Anthology by Origami Poems Project, Lauri Burke (Illustrator), Christine Anderson (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Gretchen Primack and 1 other person liked Rachel B 's review of Kind: Poems: "Beautiful and sharp poems. Illustrations throughout are gorgeous. "
Jun 29, 2026 08:18AM · see review
Gretchen Primack and 3 other people liked Rachel's review of Kind: Poems: "Oh my heart. I feel what the poet feels. I’m still processing what I’ve read but I can tell you - I wish I could buy a million copies of this book of poetry and hand them out. I wish it were required reading in schools. Where has our empathy gone? I " Read more of this review »
Jun 29, 2026 08:18AM · see review
Gretchen Primack and 2 other people liked Chris's review of Kind: Poems: "What a beautiful book and tribute to the animals. Gretchen has such a talent for using her words to place you with each character in the poem and experiencing their happiness as well as their deep suffering. I highly recommend this amazing book of po" Read more of this review »
Jun 29, 2026 08:17AM · see review
Gretchen Primack liked Sparrow .'s review of Visiting Days: "I never read introductions – until the end – so I thought the characters in these poems were real people. (Each poem is a monologue whose title is a name, plus a location, such as: “Hector (South Hall).”) And they ARE real people – just fictional peo" Read more of this review »
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Gretchen Primack rated a book it was amazing The Lucky Ones: My Passionate Fight for Farm Animals by Jenny Brown (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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