Kazuko Shiraishi
Kazuko Shiraishi (白石 かずこ Shiraishi Kazuko, born 1931) is a Japanese poet and translator who was born in Vancouver, Canada. She is a modernist, outsider poet who got her start in Katsue Kitazono's "VOU" poetry group, which led Shiraishi to publish her first book of poems in 1951. She read some of her poems at jazz performances.[1] She has appeared at readings and literary festivals all over the world.[1][2]