While hymns are traditionally means of communicating the divine, Hymnal for Catastrophe invests sacred forms in the ordinary and commonplace. Falling out of love, losing a friend, not having money to buy food: these things we experience all the time can often feel as profound and catastrophic as the end of the world. The manuscript is a blend of poetry and lyric essays that deal with these themes, elevating molecular catastrophes to the level of apocalypse. This is a chapbook collection by René Bennett.