CoffeeShop Blues is a book/journal that is meant to promote the writers, poets, artists and musicians across the world. This is a publisher sponsored journal that will be yielding no profit for the company. The journal is designed to showcase the artists within and will retain no copyrights for their work. Designed to reach an international audience, this journal guides its readers to the artist's sites where they can find, purchase, or just become a fan of each. This is the first issue being released and has become a major undertaking that Coreopsis Publications has worked through. This...

In the fall of 1995, the bountiful colors of the leaves whispering life's perceptions breathed softly across the autumn path, taking me through decadent Smithsonian passages into yesteryear, down historical Spanish brick streets where Ponce De Leon had begun his quest for the Fountain of Youth, out onto a dock on the Indian River Lagoon to hand feed manatees, scuba diving from a sailboat into the crystal-clear waters on magnificent coral reefs of the Florida Keys, and backpacking the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, which led me up inside a cloud forest to help construct an eco-lodge. And, that...

CoffeeShop Blues is a cafe where artists come together to relay stories, reveal art, read poetry and allow you to look at a few pieces, or play a song or two. It's a welcoming spot for artists that span the globe. This cover is simply a portal that'll bring you into a collage, though at first glance may seem black and white, yet actually is doused with a myriad of color; travel through the desert, into the city of London, across the seas to New Zealand, through ancient ruins and hidden gems of Ireland, over into India, down into Brasil(purposely spelled that way by request), through the...