2024-03-25 14:03
The latest “Tiny Moments,” just out, has my poem, “The Hummingbird”:The HummingbirdSame day late July, every year by backyard fence,single blur of beryl green and rub… Read More
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2024-03-25 14:02
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2023-08-07 13:37
About nine years ago, I wrote an OpEdge article that in the idealized world of television commercials people care about their pets as much as they do about their children. At the time it se… Read More
2023-08-01 14:30
Minyan Magazine has just published my poem, “Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen,” my take on the Adam and Eve myth.
Eve Offers Adam a Cyclamen
Some say it’s an apple, some say an o… Read More
2023-07-25 17:18
The “Barbie” movie completes the conversion of Barbie from a symbol of paternalistic sexism to a hero of feminism.Nobody but old Boomers will remember that when Barbie first came… Read More
2022-09-28 22:50
2022-09-24 22:43
I have two poems in the latest issue of Sin Fronteras. Here is one of them:
WHY EVERYONE’S FAVORITE UNCLE MISSED THE WEDDING
From table to table he goes like stations of the cross,
fro… Read More
2022-09-22 20:27
2022-01-03 20:21
Countering Culture by Jessica de Koninck
The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole (Owl Canyon Press, 2021)
Stories of family trauma, parent-child relationships,
and sibling rivalry are part of th… Read More
2021-12-08 16:57
In the “State News” section of the latest AARP Bulletin, the American Association of Retired People (AARP) solicits volunteer advocates in New York, Vermont, and other states to… Read More
2021-11-02 22:35
Here’s an excerpt from the Fall 2021 issue of Main Street Rag: “Jampole’s experimentation is an intriguing, if sometimes challenging, way to stretch the novel for… Read More
2021-09-23 16:49
Here are excerpts from the latest positive review of The Brothers Silver:
“Jampole sees present-day America as a brutal right-wing Inferno, where the sufferers become the opposite… Read More
2021-09-14 14:29
Included is one of my personal favorites among all the poems I have written over the decades, “The Beach in Winter.” If you like it, buy the issue and see my other two poems:&nbs&hell…Read More
2021-09-09 20:33
My new novel, The Brothers Silver, is now available on audiobook: https://www.amazon.com/The-Brothers-Silver-A-Novel/dp/B09CFMMGDW/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=… Read More
2021-07-29 13:46
In the May 29th edition of the Prairies Book Review:
The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole
Powerfully told… A soaring and haunting tale.
Transcendent and hard-hitting, Jampole&r&hell…Read More
2021-07-21 18:39
Here is Violet Snow’s review of my new novel, The Brothers Silver, that was published a few weeks back in The Adirondack Review:
What are the forces that mak… Read More
2021-07-13 14:53
Dionna Dash’s review of The Brothers Silver in the July 9, 2021 edition of The Jewish Chronicle:
“The Brothers Silver,” a tale of two brothers growing up in the… Read More
2021-07-09 13:22
Jennifer Johnson: A Haunting Novel of Childhood Trauma
A Review of The Brothers Silver by Marc Jampole
Owl Canyon Press, 2021
The Brothers Silver takes a hard look at how chil… Read More
2021-06-29 13:48
My article from the June 28, 2021 Charlotte Readers Blog:
I’ve always been attracted to novels that unfold from several points of view. As a child, the main reason I loved Robert Louis… Read More
2021-06-25 15:04
Landis Wade interviews me about my new novel, The Brothers Silver, at the Charlotte Readers Podcast of June 25, 2021.
Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Silver-Marc-Jampole/dp/… Read More
2021-06-21 19:24
There was a great review of The Brothers Silver by Jewish Currents. Here are some excerpts:
The Brothers Silver, the newly published first novel by poet and essayist Marc Jampole… Read More
2021-06-21 19:05
Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Silver-Marc-Jampole/dp/1952085071/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Buy at Owl Canyon Press: https://www.owlcanyonpress.com/… Read More
2021-06-07 15:07
Buy The Brothers Silver on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Silver-Marc-Jampole/dp/1952085071/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
At Owl Canyon Press: https… Read More
2021-05-30 14:49
2021-05-24 18:03
2021-05-13 13:36
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2021-05-10 13:46
2021-05-07 09:42
Coming from a family that prized athletic competition has made me often explore in fiction and poetry the differences and similarities between winning and losing, in sports and in other huma… Read More
2021-05-03 17:48
One of the most central issues in writing anything is voice, at least for me. When beginning a piece, I always ask myself, who do I want to do the talking in this poem or story? Is it a man… Read More
2021-04-30 14:47
That health directives such as wearing masks and getting vaccinated have become battlefields in a cultural war against science has made for a continuing stream of headlines and analysis in t… Read More
2021-04-26 14:33
We’re approaching the twentieth anniversary of the death of my younger brother Leslie, the result of brain injuries sustained from falling off a roof and landing on concrete. In contem… Read More
2021-04-23 22:20
Save the Day – June 6th, 7 PM EST – Zoom Book Launch Party for “The Brothers Silver” by Marc Jampole
Save the Date: June 6th
Zoom Book Launch Party for
“The Bro… Read More
2021-04-22 16:50
Did you ever spend the evening drifting in and out of sleep while watching television? Your consciousness toggles effortlessly between the TV show, a drowsy state in which you hear the TV as… Read More
2021-04-19 15:03
The cruelness of last April would have delighted the T.S. Eliot of “The Waste Land.” We were in the middle of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic. We knew very little about t… Read More
2021-04-15 16:54
Baseball season has started, a long grind of 162 games, just to reach the playoffs, one day very much like the day before and the one after for the ballplayers who spend most every day the s… Read More
2021-04-12 13:11
All societies sort themselves into winners and losers, but the fruits of winning differ,
depending on the society. Compared to historical trends, the United States is giving
more to the winn… Read More
2021-04-08 16:51
Capturing emotions in words sometimes reminds me of trying to catch a beam of light in the hand. I’ve tried lots of common rhetorical tricks with varying degrees of success: describing… Read More
2021-04-05 15:28
A year into the plague, we’ve now missed two Passovers, one Rosh Hashanah and one Thanksgiving, the three holidays on which my wife and I generally gather with lots of family. We&rsquo&hell…Read More
2021-04-01 15:35
Long before I read Mercea Eliade’s assertion that Yohanan ben Zakkai (and not Jesus Christ) was the most important religious figure in the first century of the common era, Zakkai was o… Read More
2021-03-29 15:09
Here’s another poem for Passover. “Just Like Brian Wilson” starts as a critique of the concept of royalty, which I despise. It proposes that at the point in the Passover se… Read More
2021-03-25 14:35
The end of the pandemic represents an opportunity to find provisional answers to an eternal question: Do we have a core self that persists through decades of change? Or are we, like Ibsen&rs&hell…Read More
2021-03-22 14:26
Sometimes I wonder what I would do if I knew I had only one more day to live. A few years back I catalogued the possible activities for a hypothetical last day on Earth. Surprisingly, wild f… Read More
2021-03-18 16:39
One thing I’m sure most people don’t miss during the pandemic are long staff meetings in ice-cold air conditioning with insipid sandwiches and donuts. At least on Zoom, you can d… Read More
2021-03-15 15:23
My guess is that most adults have experienced the following, although probably not since the pandemic began: You meet someone and have an immediately physical attraction, and feel vibes that… Read More
2021-03-11 15:12
From almost the beginning of literature in ancient times, writers have toyed with the idea of alternate visions of reality: dream worlds, the reality after death, fantasy worlds, the world w… Read More
2021-03-08 15:40
Whatever the reason for being in recovery—be it from substance abuse, childhood trauma, violence, sexual abuse, or war—the feelings are similar: guilt and shame, as survivors of… Read More
2021-03-04 16:44
Some years back, the University of Pittsburgh’s Frick Fine Arts Museum asked me to write a poem about its exhibition of Audubon bird prints and include it in a reading there. I d… Read More
2021-03-01 16:04
It’s easy to get into a rut during the Covid-19 pandemic, captive at home, apart from most family, friends and work acquaintances, unable to engage in virtually all of our favorite act… Read More
2021-02-25 15:09
The argument that the rich deserve their wealth because they earned it serves as the basis for a lot of governmental social policy, including our taxation system. But even for the billionair… Read More
2021-02-22 14:12
The mind can sure play tricks on you! I remember years ago, when we lived in Miami during high school, my brother and I once saw a rainstorm three blocks away, moving in our direction like a… Read More
2021-02-18 16:24
Someone asked me to post a feel-good poem. What could feel better than a poem about playing word games with a three-year-old on July 4th, then feeding the ducks and watching them glide away… Read More
2021-02-15 15:44
Rich folk live in gated communities or on private islands to escape from the world. Many well-off people send their children to private schools hoping to avoid having their kids come in cont… Read More
2021-02-11 16:47
One of the main characters in my soon-to-be-released novel, The Brothers Silver, is a mentally ill housewife literally beat down by the expectations that others place on her. In creating the… Read More
2021-02-08 14:58
One of my most requested poems at readings is “Schoenberg’s Second Conversion,” my version of the life of Arnold Schoenberg, an important composer of the 20th century. Scho… Read More
2021-02-04 15:41
Sometime in the summer of 1984, I was driving my wreck of a Toyota stick-shift on a rural Georgia backroad, exhausted from driving for ten hours straight from New Orleans. I fell asleep and… Read More
2021-02-01 16:10
Going outside during a pandemic resembles running an obstacle course, especially in a city as densely populated as New York. The obstacles are maskless people and the poisonous invisible mon… Read More
2021-01-28 15:50
When I was a pre-teen, my favorite song was Dee Clark’s “Raindrops,” a sappy ballad of lost love sung straight to saccharine strings. The thunder sound effects in the backg… Read More
2021-01-25 15:06
I recently noticed that those stupid Facebook memes asking whether we really knew anyone who had contracted or died of Covid-19 have disappeared. Their slightly smarmy insinuation that the p… Read More
2020-06-10 18:53
The right-wing is happy to label initiatives to change the relationship between police and the communities that they protect as “disbanding” and “defunding” the polic… Read More
2020-06-02 12:49
I have to admire the thousands of people protesting the awful death of George Floyd and the unredeemable racism in the criminal justice system that it represents. Even wearing masks, the pro… Read More
2020-04-24 13:15
OpEdge is turning over today’s column to my dear friend William Torphy, who has written a poignant article which explores how forty years of policies that favor the ultra-rich has weak… Read More
2020-03-29 17:03
For the last week, I’ve been meaning to write an article begging Bernie Sanders to get out of the presidential race and support the putative Democratic nominee, Joe Biden. My thinking… Read More
2020-03-28 11:15
The “cull the herd” strategy for addressing the corona virus epidemic in the United States has emerged in public discourse this week, touted by Donald Trump, some minor politicia… Read More
2020-03-07 20:56
If we were judging only on their ideas and proposals, I would make a strong recommendation that every Democrat give their primary or caucus vote to Bernie Sanders. Biden, like Bill Clinton a… Read More
2020-02-26 14:29
Centrist pundits are raising alarms about the possibility of Bernie Sanders getting the nomination, convinced that his so-called extreme policies will turn off centrist voters and conservati… Read More
2020-01-06 21:50
Virtually everyone who has commented on the drone killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani premises their remarks with the idea that Suleimani was, as one MSNBC talking head put it… Read More
2019-11-07 17:37
When viewed through the lens of today, the defense of Trump by Republicans seems reprehensible to a growing number of Americans. Despite the daily piling up of more evidence of his illegal a… Read More
2019-10-18 14:57
Elizabeth Warren’s statements and answers in debates, interviews and speeches have consistently been impeccable—on point, accurate, and with the right balance of emotion, theory… Read More
2019-10-02 16:04
Janis Brenner (Photographer: Judith Stuart Boroson)
Inheritance: A Litany is a frankly autobiographical and viscerally touching solo work conceived and performed by the multi… Read More
2019-09-26 07:13
When discussing policy, we can divide the 10 credible candidates who participated in all three Democratic debates into three categories: The unabashed progressives are Warren and Sanders. Th… Read More
2019-09-16 13:20
The way I ran across the very important article discussed in this column exemplifies how ideas disseminate in the age of social media. The article is a technical think piece by the very repu… Read More
2019-09-11 14:16
A human tide hit Earth’s beaches, prairies, desserts and mountains like a tsunami at about the turn of the 19th century and will subside only at the turn of the 22nd. That human wave i… Read More
2019-08-28 14:59
Those seeking to put the Trump phenomenon in a broader context will usually point out that his rhetoric and actions typically stay within the margins of 21st century Republican thought, espe… Read More
2019-08-22 19:30
The argument of former vice president Joe Biden and his wife Dr. Jill that he is the most electable Democrat running puts the emphasis on what is an increasingly trivial concern. Recent poll… Read More
2019-08-19 13:24
A signed New York Times editorial by Alex Kingsbury over the weekend presented the false assumption that even after outlawing automatic weapons, these weapons of mass destruction will be on… Read More
2019-08-15 19:44
The proposed Trump Administration rule to deny entry into the United States to immigrants who would likely need public assistance—the so-called means test—is an incredibly dunce… Read More
2019-08-07 19:26
It’s inaccurate to blame Donald Trump’s racist spewing for the latest mass murders in El Paso and Dayton. As incendiary as Trump’s words have been, it’s not his fault… Read More
2019-08-01 16:30
The second round of debates between the Democratic candidates for president demonstrated how imperfect the presidential debate system is. The candidates basically repeated the talking points… Read More
2019-07-23 14:47
Now that the initial stench of Donald Trump’s racist comments about four freshman Democratic female Congressional representatives has lifted, most analysts are discussing this series o… Read More
2019-06-26 13:38
The problem with the news media talking about socialism in the context of the current election cycle is that most people—including most reporters and columnists—have no idea what… Read More
2019-06-20 13:53
Yes, we know the BS that Trump, Bolton, Pompeo, the Saudis and the Netanyahu government have been slinging in the news media. Accusations of tanker bombings and other acts of terrorism, all… Read More
2019-06-06 14:40
Under the leadership of Donald Trump, the Republican Party has graduated from pursuing Ronald Reagan’s politics of selfishness to pursuing the politics of cruelty.
How else to explain… Read More
2019-05-29 14:14
Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction doesn’t break new ground in its discussion of how computer algorithms discriminate against the poor, minorities and women, making… Read More
2019-05-22 14:59
Many major media outlets, including USA Today and New York Times have been floating the idea of lowering the voting age to 16.
Bad idea. If anything, we should raise the voting age to 21.
T… Read More
2019-05-17 21:09
The current wave of anti-choice legislation passed in Alabama, Georgia, Ohio and elsewhere fills me with a deep sadness for the many victims whom these benighted laws will create. Women who… Read More
2019-04-28 18:42
Pangloss is a fictional character in Voltaire’s 18th century masterpiece of satire, Candide. When describing the current state of affairs, Pangloss always refers to the status quo as … Read More
2019-04-22 21:33
The Democrats who don’t want to impeach Donald Trump at this point are afraid of their own shadows. Or maybe the shadows of their big funders.
They say they fear that the move would b… Read More
2019-04-08 16:12
Many people are giving Joe Biden a free pass for his past touchiness because his intentions were never sexual. That’s absurd. He invaded the personal space of a lot of women and it mad… Read More
2019-04-01 16:48
The first week after the announcement of the arrests of dozens of selfish and unethical rich folk who committed fraud to get their kids into college, the New York Times must have had 25 arti… Read More
2019-03-29 14:35
A homeless eight-year-old refugee from Nigeria wins the New York State Chess Championship in the K-3 division. Within weeks, the publicity that Tanitoluwa Adewumi receives, primarily through… Read More
2019-03-26 01:29
Trump supporters and the GOP are building a house of cards on Attorney General William Barr’s four-page interpretation of the Mueller report
We don’t have the Mueller report yet… Read More
2019-02-06 16:09
There are a number of myths floating around the mainstream news media that portray Medicare-for-all as politically unviable, too expensive and impossible to implement.
The biggest misconcep… Read More
2019-02-04 20:28
The blue wave that swept Democrats into office on the local, state and federal levels has given progressives and centrists hope that legislatures will soon start passing tougher gun control… Read More
2019-01-31 14:37
In daydreams I imagine a 2020 Democratic presidential ticket consisting of some combination of Elizabeth Warren, Sherrod Brown, Jay Inslee, Amy Klobuchar, Jeff Merkel, Chris Murphy and Kamal… Read More
2019-01-11 14:50
Democratic Congresswoman Barbara Lee of California wants to repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) and the 2002 Iraq AUMF, which three presidents have now used to sta… Read More
2019-01-09 22:34
As Stephen Colbert pointed out, Republican strategist Stuart Stevens best characterized Donald Trump’s Oval Office speech about the proposed wall along our Southern border hours before… Read More
2018-12-13 19:44
Whoever the Democrats run as president in 2020 will represent the Party and the Party platform far more than is usual, mainly because there is so much unity among Democrats when it comes to… Read More
2018-12-12 15:35
The Democratic Party is full of smart, experienced and personable women who would do a great job as president. The list begins with Hillary Clinton, but obviously nominating her would court… Read More
2018-12-12 01:38
The Democrats are blessed with a large number of candidates whose experience, politics and personality make them qualified to assume the office of the presidency. Even if we rule out the mos… Read More
2018-11-07 16:01
Media pundits are trying to shade the election as a wash, but I see it as a major victory for Democrats, everyone who believes America is a multicultural society, and the 99.5% of us who don… Read More
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