Marc Jampole

Jampole has written the OpEdge blog since 2009. OpEdge discusses the political and social issues of the day from a left-wing point of view, often using academic and secondary research to make the case for his views, including raising taxes on the wealthy, cutting the military budget and turning away from the celebrity-fueled culture of consumption. National Public Radio and other media have frequently quoted or referenced OpEdge articles. OpEdge articles also often appears on the websites of The Progressive Populist, Jewish Currents,and Vox Populi.

Jampole has published one book of poetry, Music From Words (Bellday Books 2007). His poems have been published in many poetry journals and anthologies, including The Mississippi Review, The Evansville Review, The Courtland Review, Vallum, Cutthroat, Slant Magazine, Illumen, Oxford Magazine, Janus Head, Only the Sea Keeps (2005 Bayeaux Arts Press), Wilderness House Literary Review, Ellipsis, Journey (2009 Eden Waters Press), and Acapella Zoo, among others. Four of his poems were nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2008.

Jampole's work is rarely autobiographical. The narrators in his poems are sometimes famous people, biblical or historical figures and sometimes ordinary people at a point of epiphany or anagnorisis. In one poem, a real-estate agent who thinks he's Moses sees the burning bush in an upscale suburb. In others, Gilgamesh gets caught in a traffic jam, Blaise Pascal faces a crisis of faith and faith in reason, a former whiz kid disassociates into psychosis and Hugo Ball, one of the founders of the Dada movement, sells his wife to soldiers. He also writes in reaction to world events, such as the 2004 tsunami in Southeast Asia.

Jampole formed Jampole Communications, Inc. in 1989. As principal, Jampole wrote more than 1,800 articles and was a well-known speaker on media-relations and crisis communications. He was frequently quoted in the mass media as a public relations expert. Jampole also developed communications plans for more than 100 crises and handled three of the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcies in American history - the bankruptcy of Allegheny International and two Penn Traffic Company bankruptcies. At the end of 2016, Jampole sold the operations of Jampole Communications to Pittsburgh-based Wordwrite Communications, where he serves as executive vice president.”

In the 1970s, Jampole taught French and German language and literature and filmmaking at the University of Washington. He also made several avant-garde films that were shown at a number of independent film festivals.

Marc Jampole (born July 24, 1950) is an American poet, public relations executive, former television news reporter and political blogger.