Music is something I profess to know nothing about, but I couldn’t let April, which is National Poetry Month, slip by without mentioning this wonderful new CD by Natalie Merchant.  Leave Your Sleep, Merchant’s first album since 2003,  is ‘literally’ poems set to music.  The CD’s official website reads

I chose works by both well-known and obscure poets, ranging from anonymous nursery rhymes and lullabies to poems by British Victorians, early and mid 20th Century Americans, and a few contemporary writers.

Two versions of Leave Your Sleep will be available April 13th on Nonesuch Records: a 26 song version with deluxe packaging and a 16-track “selections” version with abridged liner notes.

Merchant preformed for the TED conference earlier this month. Here is an edited version of that show.