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 DOHM ALLEY,
located on the corner of Witherspoon and Nassau Streets, in
downtown Princeton, will soon host a new kind of public
space where the spoken word meets visual arts and ambient
sound – POET’S ALLEY.
Poet’s Alley will foster cross-cultural education through
powerful art forms that stimulate learning, curiosity, and
civic participation. Curated by the online journal Wild
River Review, Labyrinth Books, and the Princeton Public
Library, Poet’s Alley will become the uptown art heart,
culling a wide variety of creative talent to
participate in rotating exhibits. Approximately
eighty feet long and eleven feet wide, the alley
will become a gallery to poets, writers, landscape
designers, video artists, and street artists.
Across from Nassau Hall, Poet’s Alley will connect
Labyrinth Books and the Princeton Public Library,
creating a central nexus in the continuing
development of Princeton as a lively center for the
arts. This cutting-edge project creates public
interface and interaction with the human traffic
that averages fifty passing pedestrians per minute.
The curators will seek to stimulate, educate and
inspire passersby to enter what is currently an
unused urban space.
Computer scientist, Perry Cook and poet, Paul
Muldoon both Princeton professors, will join forces
with local artists to inaugurate Poet’s Alley as a
place of poetry, light, water, and sound, a
permanent, but ever-changing, art gallery joining
the visual to the literary arts. Perry Cook's
Princeton Laptop Orchestra (PLORK) will provide
original ambient sound, while Paul Muldoon’s
voice will be heard in a series of pre-recorded
readings. Artists will install their work and
perform on a monthly basis under the guidance of a
full-time coordinator.
Poet’s Alley will have an interactive website,
boosting Princeton’s profile as a local, national
and international tourist destination, stimulating
the downtown economy.
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