| Nasir Kazmi | |
| Pseudonym: | Nasir |
| Birthname: | Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi |
| Born: | 8 December 1925 |
| Birthplace: | Ambala, British India |
| Deathplace: | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Occupation: | Urdu poet, Journalist |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Ethnicity: | Urdu speaking |
| Genre: | Ghazal |
| Influences: | Mir Taqi Mir |
| Influenced: | Urdu poetry |
Syed Nasir Raza Kazmi, (1925-1972) was a renowned Urdu poet of Pakistan. He was one of the greatest poets of this era, especially in the use of "istha'aaray" and "chhoTii behr".
Nasir Kazami was born on December 8, 1925 at Ambala in British India. He was educated at Ambala, Simla and Lahore. He returned to Ambala in 1945 and started looking after his ancestral land. After the creation of Pakistan in 1947, he came to Lahore. He did some journalistic work with "Auraq-e-Nau" as an editor and became editor-in-chief of the magazine "Humayun" in 1952. Later he was associated with Radio Pakistan, Lahore and other literary publications and organizations.
Nasir Kazmi started his poetic life in 1940 by following the style of Akhtar Sherani and wrote romantic poems and sonnets. Later he began writing ghazals under the guidance of Hafeez Hoshyarpuri. He was a great admirer of Mir Taqi Mir and probably the melancholy and "Ehsaas-e-Mehroomi" in his poetry was a direct result of that. His tutor in poetry was Hafeez Hoshyarpuri, who himself used a lot of symbols from nature in his poems.
His last four tragically were published after his death. He died in Lahore on March 2, 1972 due to tuberculosis. Few people know that he did some great translations of English poets, especially his translation of Walt Whitman's "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by the title of "Brooklyn Ghaat Ke Paar" is a real masterpiece and worth reading.