[8][9] After graduating from the Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, Glaze went on to major in English at Harvard College.
[10][11] Immediately after graduating from Harvard in 1942, Glaze enlisted in the United States Air Force to serve during World War II.
He sailed to Europe on the RMS Queen Mary, which had been converted into a troop transport ship that could carry 15,000 men.
"The American poet Andrew Glaze, then an Air Force lieutenant, stood on the foredeck and looked down on 'a quarter of a mile of human circles shooting craps'.
[23] Glaze's ex-wife later became Dorothy Elliott Shari, and went on to join The Living Theatre, for a six-year tour of Europe.
[24][25] The move to New York may have been for many reasons, but it was hastened by a fear of reprisal for articles that Glaze had written as a reporter for the Birmingham Post-Herald.
This was the dawn of the Civil rights movement, when racial segregation and Jim Crow laws were an everyday part of life in Birmingham.
[31] In 1978, Glaze did a reading and interview on WNYC radio, and stated that before The New Yorker published Fantasy Street, they sent a fact checker out to follow the entire route of the poem and check every location mentioned in it for accuracy.
The book was well received in a review in The New York Times by Richard Eberhart, "... Glaze's poems are refreshing in the intellectual health they show ...
[38] The following summer of 1969, Glaze returned to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, this time as a guest faculty member.
Seven theatre groups performed the play between 1971—1988, and The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival did a production with the rock star, Meat Loaf, in a leading role.
[45][46] Glaze's book I Am The Jefferson County Courthouse appeared in 1981 and was published and chosen by Library Journal as one of the best small press titles of that year.
[6] In the title poem, Glaze describes a busy Southern courthouse of the 1950s; and compares the Prosecutor to a bull frog on a lillypad, addressing a pond of "obedient" followers who wait for a signal "to sing".