Vyt Bakaitis

Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American poet, translator, and editor.

Life
Bakaitis was born in Lithuania and lives in New York City. His main collection of poetry is City Country (1991). His magazine, Thirst, lasted only a few issues, but his translations of Lithuanian poetry, particularly the anthology Breathing Free and the work of Jonas Mekas, are significant. He was married to the late artist Sharon Gilbert.

Poetry

 * City country. New York City: Black Thistle Press, 1991. ISBN 0-9628181-2-7

Translated

 * Gyvas atodūsis: lietuvių poezijos vertimai / sudarė ir į anglų kalbą vertė Vyt Bakaitis. Breathing free: poems from the Lithuanian'' / selected and translated by Vyt Bakaitis. Vilnius: Lietuvos Rašytojų sąjungos leidykla, 2001. ISBN 9986-39-183-0
 * Mekas, Jonas, 1922- Semeniškių idilės. English & Lithuanian. There is no Ithaca : Idylls of Semeniskiai & Reminiscences / translated from the Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis (foreword by Czeslaw Milosz). New York City: Black Thistle Press, 1996.  ISBN 0-9628181-1-9