Christian Bancroft and Christos Kalli

Main Point Books welcomes poets Christian Bancroft & Christos Kalli in celebration of Christian's new book "A Ghost Has No Fantasies."

This event will be in our lower level event space. RSVPS are requested via Eventbrite; walk-ins are welcome.

Meet the Poets

Christian Bancroft received their PhD from the University of Houston and is the recipient of a Michener Fellowship. He is the author of a poetry collection, A Ghost Has No Fantasies (2026); a book of scholarship, Queering Modernist Translation: The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness (2020); and a co-edited collection (with Jenny Molberg), Adelaide Crapsey: The Life and Work of an American Master (2018). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Foglifter, The Missouri Review, Petrichor, and Prairie Schooner, among others.

Christos Kalli, born and raised in Cyprus, is a poet, poetry critic, and PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Home , and Ninth Letter, among others. His critical writing has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Harvard Review, Hopkins Review, and World Literature Today. In 2025, he was awarded the William Carlos Williams Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

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