Avia Tadmor, third place winner of Narrative’s Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest, holds an MFA in poetry and literacy translation from Columbia University. Born in Jerusalem, she is an assistant professor in the expository writing program at New York University.



THIRD PLACE WINNER


My Grandfather Delivers a Survivor’s Testimony at Yad Vashem

by Avia Tadmor
My first name was Adolf. My father,
my mother, what did they know?


From the German, meaning both
noble and beast. Meaning I’d live unafraid


my roots could be showing,
less worried that someone would see


through to the part of me longer
than my own life.
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