Kazimiera Zawistowska de domo Jasieńska, pseudonym Ira, (1870–1902) was a Polish acclaimed poet and translator.
Zawistowska was an author of modernist erotic and landscape poems related with mysticism, symbolism and Parnassianism. She published her works in Kraków and Warsaw magazines – Życie, Krytyka and Chimera. Zawistowska translated poems of Belgian and French symbolists, including Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine, Albert Samain.
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Kazimiera Zawistowska was born in 1870 in Rasztowce, Podolia. After education, she moved to Switzerland and Italy. After back to Poland, she married with Stanisław Jastrzębiec-Zawistowski and lived with him in Supranówka in Podolia.
She died on February 28, 1902 in Kraków. The cause of death was probably suicide.