Avia Tadmor, third place winner of Narrative’s Fifteenth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of the collection Song in Tammuz (Tupelo Press, 2026), which was included in the Best New Poems 2024 anthology. Born in Jerusalem, she holds an MFA in poetry and literacy translation from Columbia University and is a clinical associate professor 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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