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Zayra Yves grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1970's listening to the Beat Poets at City Lights and gospel evangelical preachers on Sundays.  She has traveled extensively on pilgrimages to sacred sites around the world and continues to find new ways of expressing her art.  She is an independent artist that produced and released a debut poetry and spoken word audio collection: Crowned Compassion dedicated to Zimbabwe and the children of South Africa.  She is published in numberous print journals and on-line ezines: The Zimbabwe Situation; The Panhandler Quaterly; Voices for Africa; Eyes of the Poet; Reflections IIT Madras (India); Edge Life Magazine; Poetry Life and Times; Astropoetica; and Alehouse Press.
 
She is the featured guest on the West Marin Community Radio for "House of the Poet" and on SW Radio Africa.  She has also had her audio collection featured on Ken Wilber's Integral Naked.  Her second CD Sleep in the Sea Tonight with Me is scheduled for release in the late Spring

 Crowned Compassion is a celebration of love by the poet Zayra Yves, who takes the listener on a soulful ride, a cosmic sojourn through time and space, embracing the spiritual as well as the provincial, exploring the textures of emotion by showing us the truth of reality, as well as the sultry passions. Her beautiful and mesmerizing voice is accompanied by the musical compositions of two talented and gifted blues and jazz musicians: Allen Ross and Mike Thomas.
Her love and gratitude to many   friends who supported her during this project. Crowned Compassion is dedicated to the memory of Michael Luke English.