Mirror Flower Water Moon (鏡花水月)
Mirror Flower Water Moon is a print and digital magazine published two times a year. Each issue has a theme and invites submissions of visual art, academic work, personal reflections, fiction, poetry, and more. The magazine is led and edited by a team of BA and MA students. It includes works by DRBU students, faculty, staff, and our broader community. You can reach the editors at studentmag@drbu.edu.
 2021-2022 Download Digital Edition PDF | |
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"Resilience" |
"Vulnerability" |
"Authenticity" |
"Transformation" |  "The Real World" Summer 2018 Download Digital Edition PDF |
 "Renewal" Spring 2018 Download Digital Edition PDF |  "Community" Winter 2017-2018 Download Digital Edition PDF |
Next Issue: "Dreams" | |
Meet our Editors
Quinn | Editor Since 2020
I really dislike writing but cling to it like a child to her mom. Writing is like a pair of tweezers, a sheet of sand paper, a grinding stone. The Magazine, in that way, is a collection of fine distillations of our community's challenging inner-work. It is one of my favorite parts about DRBU, and my only regret as an editor is not getting to see it "fresh." But the flip side is I get so familiar with the content through the weeks we spend working with it that the brilliant words of our community settle into my consciousness with a gentle yet persistent presence. Each piece of writing blossoms into a life of its own; each magazine has its own magnetism, its own grace. It kind of even makes me like writing a bit.
Phoenix | Editor Since 2021
"The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink." - T. S. Elliot