Susan Stoderl
- Mar 31
- 2 min
Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems V, VI & VII
These poems were written for a song cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 28
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan | Joan of Arc and the Siege of Orléans
"The Poem of Joan of Arc" is dated July 31, 1429, and was the first poem to honor the historic Jeanne d’Arc. Several legends attributed...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 24
- 1 min
Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008) Poems III & IV
These poems were written for song a cycle in 2008, Prairie Girl. I wrote about my life as a child growing up in a rural county of Kansas...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 21
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan | Not the Ordinary Woman Writer
The Book of the Body of Policy was the first political treatise written by a woman c. 1407. It counsels the knights, noblemen, and common...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 17
- 1 min
From Writing Art Songs and Opera to Middle-Grade Fiction | Prairie Girl (2008)
During my second career, after singing and running a small opera company, I began composing art songs and opera. In 2008, I wrote about...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 14
- 1 min
Christine de Pizan | Biographical Details of a Medieval Woman Writer’s Life and Learning
One characteristic of Christine de Pizan’s writing is the number of autobiographi-cal details she included in all of her various genres...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 10
- 2 min
Writer’s Life | Self-Promotion—Only One Word For It
YIKES! (That’s the nicest word I could think of.) Are you telling me I have to get out there and talk to people and collaborate with...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 7
- 2 min
Christine de Pizan (1364-1430) | First Paid Woman Writer
Many years ago, I discovered the medieval writer Christine de Pizan (also spelled Pisan) (1364-1430) when doing research for an opera...
Susan Stoderl
- Mar 3
- 1 min
Sophia and Pedro Cook | Super-Sleuths Chili, a Middle-Grade Detective Recipe
As you know, Sophia and Pedro like to cook. Here is one of their "No Bunnies, Moo-Cows, or Chicks" recipes. 1 tbsp. olive oil 1 yellow...