More than 150 guests at the “Five-Alarm Firehouse Fling” celebrated the West Windsor Arts Center’s grand opening on Saturday evening, Oct. 16, while enjoying an eclectic array of delectable foods donated by local businesses, fiery musical entertainment by The Jazz Lobsters, and Honorary Chair Paul Muldoon’s commemorative poem “A Spark.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, New Yorker poetry editor, chairman of Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts, and front man for the rock band Rackett, Mr. Muldoon wrote the poem for the occasion to commemorate the arts center’s firehouse history.
For information on the West Windsor Arts Council and West Windsor Arts Center, please visit www.westwindsorarts.org.
A Spark
It seems a contradiction that a spark
against which this firehouse has so long
stood firm should now light the dark
from within a sculpture or a song
and should, in another of those same
paradoxes on which art thrives,
now be fanned into a flame
that saves our lives
— Paul Muldoon

