Writing Down Cancer, Surviving Through Poetry

Join us at the Redwood Library & Athenaeum on Sunday, November 8 at 2:30 pm for a wonderful afternoon filled with poetry. Carol Anderheggen will read from her new book, Writing down Cancer, a journey of dreams and nightmares, accompanied by David Dragone on the violin. Fellow poets Heather Sullivan and David Dragone will also read a selection of poems. Free and all are welcome.

Carol Anderheggen’s poems have appeared in The Great Swamp Gazette, The 2010 Rhode Island Writer’s Circle Anthology, URI Women, Anemone, Northeast Journal, Women Against Nuclear War, A Letter Among Friends,NEARI Bylines, Newport Life and other regional journals. She has self-published two chapbooks – Are You a Born Child? and The Breast Cycle, a Journey of Dreams and Nightmares. Writing down Cancer was published in 2015 by Finishing Line Press. Carol reads the entirety of Writing down Cancer accompanied by David Dragone on violin in a video on YouTube.

David Dragone‘s poems have appeared in Avocet Review, California Quarterly, Common Ground Review, The Providence Sunday Journal,Newport Life, and others. His poetry has also been broadcast on WRNI, Rhode Island’s NPR station. Trinity Repertory Company in Providence also featured one of his poems. He is a member of the Ocean State Poets.

Heather Sullivan holds an M.A. in English and won First Place in Writers’ Digest’s 1999 Competition in memoir / personal essay category. Sullivan’s work has appeared in Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature; Balancing the Tides: A Newport Journal; The Writers’ Circle’s 2008 & 2010 Anthologies; Newport Round Table’s Walls and Bridges Anthology; The Providence Journal; Newport Life Magazine; The Newport Daily News and She Shines Magazine. Her essay Compassion aired on Rhode Island’s National Public Radio’s This I Believe series, and she has recorded her poetry for Insight Radio for the visually impaired. Heather’s first chapbook, These Onyx Hours, is published by Finishing Line Press