Malcolm Guite: On being told my poetry was found in a broken photo-copier

“Your poetry is jamming my machine!”

So a woman said to Malcolm Guite one day when he was trying to use a photocopier. Here, he tells the story of a mundane task gone wrong, and how it prompted him to write a new poem about a forced pause. Sometimes, poetry pushes back, disrupting our lives long enough to look at the words we’re holding in our hands.For more, visit theboxcanyon.org

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