Programs for the 2024 Printers Row Lit Fest will take place on Saturday, September 7 and Sunday, September 8 across 7 different indoor and outdoor stages from 10am – 6pm. Click here to see this year’s schedule. All 75+ programs are free and open to the public. Seating is on a first come basis.

2024 Headliner: Tracy K. Smith

Having served as US Poet Laureate from 2017-19, Tracy K. Smith is the author of five books of poetry: Such Color: New and Selected Poems; Wade in the Water, winner of the 2019 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Poetry; Life on Mars, which received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize; Duende, recipient of the 2006 James Laughlin Award, and The Body’s Question, which won the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, and the Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. She is also the recipient of this year’s Harold Washington Literary Award.