Marc Jampole
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| Born | 24 July 1950 New York City, New York |
| Occupation | Poet Public Relations Executive Journalist Former Television News|Reporter |
| Nationality | United States |
| Writing period | 1982 - |
Marc Jampole (born July 24, 1950) is an American poet, well-known public relations executive, and former television news reporter. He has published many poems published in prominent literary journals and authored one book of experimental poetry, Music From Words.
Jampole owns the public relations agency Jampole Communications, Inc. in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has lectured and written extensively on crisis communications issues. He has written more than 350 magazine and newspaper articles.
As a news reporter, Jampole was the first journalist to highlight the impact of the graying of the baby boom generation on American society.
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[edit] Background and Education
Marc Jampole was born in New York City. Before graduating from high school at the age of 16, he attended nine schools in total, in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Florida, and Wisconsin.
Jampole graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee summa cum laude and won the Robert E. Norris scholarship as the outstanding student. He earned a Masters of Art and completed his course work and general examinations for a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Washington
Jampole later conducted independent research at the Free University of (West) Berlin on a Fulbright Grant.
[edit] Career
While at the University of Washington, Jampole taught French literature and French and German language, and later taught filmmaking in the Washington Extension School. Jampole showed an early interest in creative ventures, minoring in theatre as an undergraduate and filmmaking as a graduate student.
During the mid-1970s, Jampole made a number of avant-garde short subject films that showed regularly at film festivals. Marc also ran a closed circuit television station for Pacific Northwest Bell in Seattle. After relocating to San Francisco in 1977, Jampole worked at KRON-TV, KGO-TV [the ABC affiliate], KTVU-TV, and KSTS-TV in their television news departments as a writer, field producer, and on-air reporter. Marc's work on the 1980 presidential election coverage for KRON-TV (NBC) was nominated for a news Emmy.
In his last position, as reporter for the national business news show Business Today, from 1981-1982, Jampole was seen in 10 markets across the country. For Business Today, Jampole produced a series of startling five-part reports, including one on The Graying of the Baby Boomers which aired in 1981, and another on the shrinking middle class. It is likely that Jampole was the first journalist in the mass media to draw attention to both of these trends.
In 1982, Jampole moved to Pittsburgh and became a freelance writer to earn a living. He also quit filmmaking and dedicated his creative writing ventures to poetry.
In Pittsburgh, Jampole quickly found success, first as a freelance writer and later working for large international advertising agencies. Three years later, he formed Jampole Communications, Inc., one of the leading public relations agencies in western Pennsylvania and known nationally for its crisis communications work. Jampole developed and directed the implementation plans to respond to more than 100 business and other crises, including three of the largest chapter 11 bankruptcies in American history - the bankruptcy of Allegheny International and two Penn Traffic Company bankruptcies.
Jampole is the author of one book of poetry, Music From Words published in 2007 by Bellday Books of North Carolina. His poetry has been published in Mississippi Review, Oxford Review, Ellipsis, Main Street Rag, Janus Head, Negative Capability, Peralta, Spitball and other journals. Oxford Review nominated one of his poems for The Pushcart Prize.
[edit] Style and Themes
As a poet, Jampole stands outside the mainstream of contemporary American poetry for several reasons.
First, the voice in his poems is rarely himself and the poems rarely autobiographical. The narrators in his poems are sometimes famous people, sometimes quite ordinary: a real-estate agent who thinks he's Moses sees the burning bush in an upscale suburb. Gilgamesh gets caught in a traffic jam. Pascal faces a crisis of faith and faith in reason. A former whiz kid disassociates into psychosis. Hugo Ball, one of the founders of the Dada movement, sells his wife to soldiers.
As Kate Zangrilli wrote, "Mr. Jampole creates some of the deepest feeling people you will ever meet."[1]
Jampole's willingness to experiment with the musicality inherent in words also distinguishes him from other contemporary poets. Michael Wurster noted that most of Jampole's poems are characterized by sound experiments. "Jampole is absolutely unique in the way he expresses his material, especially with regard to sound, meter and rhythm."[2]
[edit] Awards
- Fulbright Fellowship - 1976-1977
- The Silver Anvil - 1987
- Financial World's Annual Report Award - 1993
Nominations
- The Pushcart Prize - 1989
[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- Music From Words - 2007, Bellday Books
[edit] Films
Preludes - 1976
The Judgement of Paris - 1978
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