Coffee house regular, astrologer, poet, collage and dance artist Jeanie Dean curates another spoken work program with works by herself and Mark Mantel. Dean presents new and old poems in an eclectic encounter with this crazy covid time we are living in at the cusp of the shift into the next precessional 2500 year epoch. New poems include “Covid Crisis Scrapbook” and the song “Lies” Composer Mark Mantel performs 2100: The Radio Play, an interdisciplinary reading of the libretto from his opera 2100, completed in 2019 that comments and reflects on the Industrial Revolution and automation. The play is performed by the composer reading and playing keyboard and percussion accompanied by other voices and sounds.

Deans whimsical poetry will shock and delight you  with its radiant wit and intensity. Never cliched her poems are surreal treks through  uncharted stata of humanities lived experience.  Its not the same old.

Jeanie Dean is glad to be back at The Coffee House for this reading in this strange post-present COVID time of craziness. She has authored five poetry books. two of which are in print and one online. She wrote the plays: Lavendar War on the FBI, CIA and MI6, and The Loves of Hitler.She has performed theater and dance concerts and sets, costumes and collage.

A native of Milwaukee, Mark Mantel (b. 1961), got his Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a University Research and Teaching Fellow. Mantel's music explores the creation and layering of dense musical materials derived from physical models, text-driven and real-time live electronic elements, "found-objects", and theatre and theatrical elements. The works of many writers and painters serve as points of departure in much of his music as an attempt to explore artistic processes closely associated with other disciplines. Improvisation, formally, spontaneously, and structurally, plays a substantive role in defining his music.