Comedians have long used jokes to raise awareness of serious problems, and many are now turning the gaze to climate change.

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The following are the winning poems from the 2025 Nature in Verse Poetry Contest, held by Seymour Library in partnership with the Friends of Seymour Library and The Resting Soul. The contest is ...

Children’s librarian Samantha Merigold’s sons, “junior bunnies” Clark, 10, and Flynn, 7, shared jokes with the crowd to go accompany a reading of Forbes' poem "Funny Bunny." The event drew ...