David Egan
b. 2001
David Egan
b. 2001
Poetry review
Oli Hazzard’s Sleepers Awake (2025) The Adroit Journal
In his new collection Sleepers Awake, Oli Hazzard speaks in the gentle voice of a father, academic, and mid-career poet...
Art criticism
Carpenter-sculptor (2025)
The New Criterion
Frank’s experiments (2024)
The New Criterion
I first encountered the photography of Robert Frank (1924–2019) at fifteen years old, while visiting an exhibition of his work at the Art Institute of Chicago...
Essays
Theater Kids, Take Center Stage (2022) The Bruin Review
How should one live?...
On the Value of Poetry for Young Professionals (2024)
Who do we picture as the average poetry reader?...
In Defense of God, Family, Country (2023)
The Bruin Review
The phrase "God, family, country" is folk wisdom––a simple and transmissible reminder of what we live for...
Fiction
Distances (2024)
The Foundationalist
It was probably on a Saturday afternoon that I was flipping through a stack of papers on my father’s desk and learned that it's called "coping," the concrete edge that wraps around and juts out an inch above the surface of a swimming pool...
Reject Me (2023)
Westwind Journal of the Art
An ironic thought occurred to Wade...
Columns for The Daily Bruin
'Tour the Garden': on UCLA's sculpture garden (winter 2021)
1. The Walking Man embodies the sculpture garden’s historical, artistic context
2. Alexander Calder’s Button Flower epitomizes community focus of outdoor sculpture
3. T.E.U.C.L.A. demonstrates importance of sculpture conservation
4. Values sculpture garden reflects may not align with UCLA’s culture anymore
5. Sculpture garden’s architecture highlights contrast with surrounding buildings
'Maker's Medium': profiles of UCLA's art students (winter 2020)
1. Art student explores the wonders of watercolor through familial portraits
2. Student artist exemplifies powerful potential of charcoal through her drawings
3. Student uses black and white photography to explore psychological spaces
4. Art student explores precision, permanence through printmaking
5. Piecing together new meanings from existing works with collage
6. Nico Young uses sculpture to find significance in life’s mundanity
7. Harlan Goldman-Belsma shares his view of the world through pen drawings
8. Francisco Garcia uses video art, structure variety to express emotional impact
9. Perry Hernandez works to create accessible art through
10. Amy Fang explores intersection of technology and art through graphic design