Vyt Bakaitis (born 1940) is an American translator, editor, and poet born inLithuania and living inNew York City. His first collection ofpoetryCity Country (1991) was followed byDeliberate Proof (2010).Thirst, the magazine he co-edited with Benjamin Sloan, lasted only a few issues, but his translations ofLithuanian poetry are significant; particularly the 20th-century anthologyBreathing Free (2001), which he also edited. Three additional volumes he translated from the Lithuanian are by contemporary poetsJonas Mekas andJulius Keleras.

In 2022, he publishedRefuge and Occasion (SPD Press).^[1] He was married to the late artistSharon Gilbert.

• Bakaitis, Vyt,City Country. New York City : Black Thistle Press, 1991. 146 p.ISBN 0-9628181-2-7
• Bakaitis, Vyt,Deliberate Proof. Brooklyn, NY : Lunar Chandelier Press, 2010. 135 p.ISBN 978-0-9846076-0-0

• 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. 524 p.ISBN 9986-39-183-0
• Keleras, Julius,Eilėraščiai XL English & Lithuanian.XL Poems; translated from Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis; foreword by Rimvydas Šilbajoris. Vilnius : Lithuanian Writers' Association Press, 1998. 128 p.ISBN 9986-39-078-8
• Mekas, Jonas,Semeniškių idilės. English & Lithuanian.There is no Ithaca : Idylls of Semeniskiai & Reminiscences; translated from Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis; foreword by Czeslaw Milosz. New York City : Black Thistle Press, 1996. 181 p.ISBN 0-9628181-1-9
• Mekas, Jonas,Daybooks 1979-1972; translated from Lithuanian by Vyt Bakaitis; with illustrations. Brooklyn, NY : Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2003. Unpaginated

• Poems by Vyt Bakaitis
• Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2001
• Boston Review, December 1997/ January 1998 – Review by Mary Maxwell ofThere Is No Ithaca: Idylls of Semeniskiai and Reminiscences by Jonas Mekas, Translated by Vyt Bakaitis
• The Drunken Boat, Poetry from Lithuania – Winter 2002, selected by J.C. Todd – includes translations by Bakaitis
• Olson, Ray. "There Is No Ithaca: Idylls of Semeniskiai and Reminiscences." Booklist 93.n4 (Oct 15, 1996): 400(1). Expanded Academic ASAP. Thomson Gale. TORONTO PUBLIC LIBRARIES (CELPLO). 13 Dec. 2006 Review of book translated by Bakaitis

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