That poetry went unappreciated in Melville’s lifetime. It wasn’t until 1971 that a critical edition of his poems appeared, selected by Robert Penn Warren. As is evident in today’s Poem of the Day, ...

Melville also wrote poems, brilliantly. Here, as this month's Classic Poem, is one of the best-known of them, “The Maldive Shark.” The “sleek little pilot-fish” that guide the “pale sot ...

When letter-writers need to insert a note after they’ve already used a postscript, what do they do? Add a post-postscript, or, PPS. Those three letters also apply to my reading plans this summer ...

Every year around this time, children get enthused about “Shark Week,” the popular cable programming series launched all the way back in the summer of 1988. Summer stimulates a natura… ...

Namita Thapar, a judge on Shark Tank India and a prominent businesswoman, shared a thought-provoking poem on Instagram about societal expectations and embracing uniqueness. Mentioning figures like ...

Mary O’Malley’s 10th collection, The Shark Nursery (Carcanet, £11.99), brings a fine lyric sensibility to subjects as diverse as Greek mythology, marine biology and the time/space continuum.

Basking sharks are also the biggest sharks that can breach, propelling their huge bodies out of the water, sometimes up to four times in a row. ... —Shark Attack File. In a 2011 poem, ...