Poet, Journalist, Publisher. He will be most remembered for boldly reading his poems over Lithuanian radios as if he was a newscaster and later in America, being the editor of the world's oldest Lithuanian newspaper. He overcame being born in the small village of Geisteriskiai to a poor peasant family. His father had died leaving a widow with young children. He went to a secondary school in Vilkavskis; from 1922 to 1929 to the University of Kaunas to study literature and journalism; with a scholarship, to Paris to continue his studies; and to the University of Vilnius to audited classes. His first poem was published was in 1918, and while in college in 1922, his first poetry book, "Grasshopper” was published. He was a member of the Four Winds, a Lithuanian avant-garde fraternity. During his younger years, in 1920 he volunteered to serve in the Lithuanian Army. Learning the newspaper business while on-the-job, he was a writer for several newspapers in 1922. While in Paris he joined an international modernist group and in 1928 published a multi-language journal, "Muba". He toured most of western Europe during this time. In 1932 he went to the United States where he made his home in Brooklyn, New York, married, had a family and lived there half his life. In 1935, he published a collection of a book of poems written for Americans in English called simply, "Poetry". Tysliava published volumes of verse: "Will-o'-the-wisos" in 1922, "In the Neiman's Embrace" and "The Suicide Poetry Anthology" in 1924, "Goldsmith" in 1925, and "Into the Distance" in 1926. Dozens of his poems have been translated into English, French and Japanese then posted on online on various poetry sites. The words of his poems became lyrics for songs: "Autumn Rumor" and “Milk Song" which was performed by Giedrius Kuprevičius and released CD’s in 2009. Since 1933, he was the editor of the weekly Lithuanian newspaper "Unity"; he was the editor of this newspaper for the longest duration of any other editor. His wife managed the newspaper after his death in 1961. This newspaper was established in 1886 and credited as being the oldest continuously published Lithuanian-language newspaper in the world. In addition, from 1939 to 1941, he edited the magazine "Lithuania". His last book of poetry "Our Father" was published in 1953. He participated in the work of the local Lithuanian Society, was the chairman of the New York Chapter of the American Lithuanian Council, and just before his sudden death from a heart attack, was the Chairman of the Lithuanian Writers' Society. His body was buried in Lithuania in 1962. A street in Kaunas was named in his honor.