News · Culture For Subscribers Massachusetts State Agency Seeks $15,000 For Taxpayer-Funded Poet By Tom Joyce March 25, 2025 · 10:02 AM EDT · Updated March 25, 2025 10:02 AM · 3 min read read Advertisement Listen to audio version of this article Members only Subscribe to listen Should Massachusetts taxpayers pay someone $15,000 per year to write poetry? Should Massachusetts taxpayers pay someone $15,000 per year to write poetry?… Advertisement Read Next Taxpayer-Funded Fall River Nonprofit Gives Out Crack Pipes And Rectal Drug Supplies Authorities Arrest Two Illegal Immigrants In Lynn Over New York Police Stabbing Healey Administration Reaches Deal With CSX to Expand Passenger Rail in Western Massachusetts Mike Minogue Has Spent $17.3 Million of His Own Money on Governor's Race