[1] He graduated from elementary school in Kuršėnai in 1934 and completed a gymnasium course called Savišvieta (Self-study, likely a form of correspondence program) in 1941.
He was the chief editor of the weekly newspaper of the Writers' Union Literatūra ir menas (Literature and Art, 1949–1959).
For a collection of poems Prie baltojo Tadž (By the White Taj, 1962) about India he was awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Prize (1968).
He received the State Prize of the Lithuanian SSR for a collection of poems for children Šarkos švarkas (Magpie's Jacket, 1975).
Reimeris translated into the Lithuanian language poems by Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Alexander Pushkin, Konstantin Simonov, and others.