03/10/2025trueThe third annual Annette Allen Poetry Prize celebration and reading took place at the Ekstrom Library at the University of Louisville on February 22nd – and for the second year in the competition’s history, a Bellarmine student has claimed the win! Josh Bloom, a third-year Bellarmine student studying English and Creative Writing, received the first place prize: an award of $300, a copy of Annette Allen’s collection The Cruel Radiance of What Is, and publication in the prestigious Louisville Review.Student Stories