More than 350 Catholic poems with a new poem published each Wednesday.
Evening mass:
Bread the color of broken bones
preparing me for the day
nothing will frighten me.
Justin Lacour is a poet living in New Orleans. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry, Amethyst Review, and The Windhover. He was a finalist in the Catholic Literary Arts 2022 Advent poetry contest.
Since 2019, the Catholic Poetry Room (www.CatholicPoetry.org) has shared a new poem with readers each week. Poems range in style from formal to free verse to ekphrastics, with an honest expression of each author’s spiritual journey. Many Catholic Poetry Room adult readers are new to poetry and find the poems both accessible and enjoyable. The Catholic Poetry Room is also used by Catholic School teachers, who find the poems an excellent way to begin the day with their students, to pray, or use Catholic Poetry Room verse in their academic classes.