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Today's bilingual poem is a tiny, sweet lullaby of memoria, history, and dreams. Here's Venezuelan poet Connie Mae Concepción Oliver with her poem "Duérmase mi niña."

Marisa Orozco is a producer on KALW's daily call-in program, Your Call.

Today is National Parfait Day!

SFUSD's handling of potential school closures is raising concerns. And, Cafe du Nord has brought us local music for over 100 years. Then, a new film about a trailblazing ballet dancer.

This week, we celebrate the 4th of July by revisiting some of our favorite guests of the past year, including Lauren Graham, Roy Wood Jr., Amanda Seyfried, mxmtoon, and Jim Gaffigan!

Search and rescue efforts continue in Central Texas where flash flooding has left at least dozens of people dead.

The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he wants the luxury resort on the eastern seacoast to become a "world destination," but the country has been reluctant to allow in foreign tourists.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with "The Jailhouse Lawyer" authors Calvin Duncan and Sophie Cull. It's a memoir about Duncan's life as a wrongly incarcerated inmate and his efforts to exonerate himself.

Papilio is a picture book told in three parts about three stages of a butterfly's life (there are really four stages but egg time is pretty boring). It's also written and illustrated by three friends.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with meteorologist Sarah Spivey from KSAT News in San Antonio about the deadly floods in Texas.

At least 24 people are dead after flash flooding on the Guadalupe River in Texas. Rescue efforts are underway to find 20 people who are still missing.