Phillip Periman
Panhandle
Phillip Periman was born in 1938 in Memphis, Texas, grew up and finished high school in Amarillo, Texas. He received a BA in history from Yale University and his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine. He retired from the active practice of medicine on 6 January 2017. He has been married to the same woman for 59 years; they have three children and seven grandchildren. Since his retirement in 2017, he has written several hundred poems. He has had poems published by the Black Mountain Press in their anthology, “The Sixty-Four” (Best Poets of 2018) , Unstamatic, Burningword Literary Journal, LitterateurRW, Amarillo Bay (who gave him a Pushcart nomination), and The Addirondack Reivew. Five of his poems were included in “Pandemic Poems” published by The High Plains Poetry Project (2021). His manuscript, “Dying: the first six years” was a semi-finalist for Passager’s 2024 Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize. Periman writes about aging, retirement, his life, and the world as he finds it.
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