Andrew Glaze
Andrew Louis Glaze III (born April 21, 1920 in Nashville, Tennessee) is a poet, playwright and former Birmingham Post-Herald reporter.
Glaze was one of three children born to physician Andrew Glaze II and his wife, Mildred Ezell. The family moved to Birmingham when he was a child, and he attended Lakeview School and Ramsay High School in Birmingham. He later prepped at the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee and eventually graduated from Harvard University in 1942. He served as a 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force in France during World War II before returning to college, at Stanford University, in 1946. He married Dorothy Elliott in 1949.
Glaze came home to Birmingham and reported from the Jefferson County Courthouse for the Post-Herald for nine years that included the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement. He testified against a Deputy Sheriff accused of wrongdoing with respect to two black men in 1957. Fearing for his life, he moved to New York City, where he became a press officer for the British Tourist Authority.
Glaze divorced Dorothy in 1959, marrying dancer Adriana Keathley. He wrote several plays that were produced in New York. The couple relocated to Miami for many years before moving to Birmingham in the late 2000s.
Glaze's first book of poems, Damned Ugly Children, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1966. He was given the Eunice Tietjens Award by Poetry magazine and his 1981 book I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse & Other Poems was selected as one of the best small press titles of the year by the Library Journal. Another book, Someone Will Go On Owing: Selected Poems: 1966-1992 was named best book of the year by the Southeastern Booksellers Association in 1998. In 2012 Glaze was named Alabama's Poet Laureate by the Alabama Writers' Conclave.
Books
- Glaze, Andrew (1964) Lines: Poems & Lithographs
- Glaze, Andrew (1966) Damned Ugly Children
- Glaze, Andrew (1978) A Masque of Surgery: Poems and Translations
- Glaze, Andrew (1981) I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse & Other Poems
- Glaze, Andrew (1991) Reality Street
- Glaze, Andrew (1998) Someone Will Go On Owing: Selected Poems: 1966-1992
- Glaze, Andrew (2002) Remembering Thunder
References
- Doreski, William, ed. (1985) In Earth That Sings: On the Poetry of Andrew Glaze. Houston: Ford-Brown & Co.
- Haddin, Theodore (October 5, 2009) "Andrew Glaze". Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Gray, Andrew (July 24, 2012) "Former reporter, Pulitzer runner-up named poet Alabama laureate." The Birmingham News
External links
- Glaze reading "I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse" (audio) in YouTube.com