A Deep Southern, Diversified & Re-Imagined Recap of 2023
2023 was another year of changes for this middle-aged writer, editor, and teacher. In January, I moved from the English department faculty at the college and to a staff position as the Academic Writing Advisor. Another change was the decision to end level:deepsouth. That was a hard, but it was the right thing to do. One more change, but this one was positive: I revisited the “A writer-editor-teacher’s quote of the week” series this year . Looking further, into ongoing work, Nobody’s Home has stayed constant and is going strong after its third anniversary in March. That same month, the Fitzgerald Museum’s fifth annual Literary Contest was completed, while the theme and judges for the sixth contest were announced in August. Most importantly, the Montgomery Catholic history book was completed and published in conjunction with the school’s anniversary in October. Now, as 2023 comes to a close, here is a recap of what has been published here (and a few things on Nobody’s Home) this year:
Posts
Dirty Boots: Flag Football (December)
A Quick Tribute to “Redneck Sheriff” Clifton James (December)
Dirty Boots: Mulling over Milligan (November)
Throwback Thursday: Five Years since the Release of Closed Ranks (November)
The Work, as 2023 winds down (October)
The release of Faith. Virtue. Wisdom. (October)
The end of level:deepsouth (September)
a few haiku from recent years (September)
A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: The Death of Mary Crovatt Hambidge, 1973 (August)
A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: The Death of Jerry Clower, 1998 (August)
Another Batch of New Works in Nobody’s Home (August)
The Fitzgerald Museum’s sixth annual Literary Contest and Zelda Award (August)
A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: The Destruction of the Georgia Guidestones, 2022 (July)
Spring 2023 (in images) (June)
The Open Submissions Period for Nobody’s Home ends today. (June)
Yet Another 10 GenX Movies You’ve Probably Forgotten (or Never Seen) (June)
Alabamiana: Albert Brewer vs. the Drive-Ins, 1969 (May)
Essay: “Southern Roots in Four Plays by August Wilson” (May)
Thirteen Years of Unapologetically Eclectic Pack Mule-ing (April)
Timothy B. Tyson at Huntingdon College, April 13 (April)
Essay: “Am I Supposed to Laugh or Not?” (On the Poetry of Rodney Jones) (April)
An editor’s look back: “Myths are the truths we live by.” (March)
level:deepsouth, because GenXers have stories to tell (February)
A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: Walking Tall, 50 Years Later (February)
A Deep Southern Throwback Thursday: The Death of Bear Bryant, 40 Years Later (January)
and published in “Groundwork,” the editor’s blog for Nobody’s Home:
A Road Trip, West: Alabama’s Black Belt (October)
Car Trouble and Voodoo: a Rumination on Horror and the South (October)
“the degree of civilization”: A Rumination on Prisons and the Summer Heat (August)
Flipping the Script: A Rumination on the Anti-CRT Movement (July)
A Road Trip, Southwest: The Carolinas in Spring, Part Two (April)
A Road Trip, Northeast: The Carolinas in Spring, Part One (April)
Reading
The Catholic Teacher by James D. Kyrilo
Ninety-Two in the Shade by Thomas McGuane
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Essential Haiku and Extraordinary Zen Masters by Robert Hass and John Stevens, respectively
and published in “Groundwork,” the editor’s blog for Nobody’s Home:
The South of the Mind by Zachary J. Lechner (2018)
South to a Very Old Place by Albert Murray (1971)
Biracial Politics by Chandler Davidson (1972)
Watching
The Great Watchlist Purge of 2023: The Finally Final of All Final Reports (July)
The Great Watchlist Purge of 2023: Everything Must Go! (January)
Sad Hill Unearthed (2017) (January)
and published in “Groundwork,” the editor’s blog for Nobody’s Home:
“My Louisiana Love” on America ReFramed from PBS
Southern Movies
The Chase (1966)
Nothing But A Man (1964)
Mississippi Masala (1991)
Band of Angels (1957)
Read more from past years:
A Deep Southern, Diversified & Re-Imagined Recap of 2022
or A Deep Southern, Diversified & Re-Imagined Recap of 2021
or A Deep Southern, Diversified & Re-Imagined Recap of 2020
