James Cihlar is the publisher of Howling Bird Press. He is also the author of Rancho Nostalgia and Undoing.

Other poems by James Cihlar in Verse Daily:
December 4, 2014:   "The Projectionist" "Is it pathetic to see the insides outside?..."
September 10, 2010:   "Metaphysical Bailout" "My endeavor is an assemblage of tissue, bone, and nerve..."
September 19, 2008:   "Undoing" "Unfamiliar with the logic of the physical world..."

Books by James Cihlar:

Other poems on the web by James Cihlar:
"Saturday Night"
"Twin Cities"
Three poems
"Bequest"
"Another Man's Poison"
Two poems

James Cihlar's Website.

About The Shadowgraph:

"Jim Cihlar's The Shadowgraph presents a love song to the ways a person desperate for kinship can find a surprising lifeline in the filmography of actress Barbara Stanwyck, a star casting a well-defined shadow for LGBTQ Americans even in the era of Hollywood's 'lavender marriage.'"
—Eric Gansworth

"In the tradition of books exploring American life through film, the cruelties of family life, and the experience of being gay in contemporary culture, The Shadowgraph is a glorious collection of poems! Cihlar arrives in full voice that simply stands larger and fresher with each poem. Each one is satisfying, original, and honest."
—Jonis Agee

"The Shadowgraph offers graceful and intelligent meditations on the vagaries of memory, film, family history, and emerging gender, sexual, and personal identity. Deftly weaving Hollywood glamour with recollections of his own past, Cihlar explores the ways memory and film work to reconstruct (or recreate) our lived and imagined events. This is a very fine, technically dexterous, moving collection of poems."
—Kevin Prufer