Ballpoint Taken

Here’s a nice ballpoint pen that says ARIZONA STATE POETRY SOCIETY and AZPOETRY.NET which is the Society’s official website. On Saturday the Society had a booth at the Mesa Book Festival and was giving away these pens along with bookmarks, conference information, Society signups sheets, and the like. I helped out a little, getting passersby and reciting poetry, some from memory. Christy White, who has been President and Treasurer of the Society at various times, offered me a pen and I was glad to take it. Today I used it to do a drawing exercise, no great shakes as a work of art but another baby step in my proficiency as a ballpoint pen artist. (Ballpoint is somewhat unforgiving, as media go. No erasing and occasional dry out.) So here’s a souvenir of a nice Festival.