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.
"Resilience" |
"Vulnerability" |
"Authenticity" |
"Transformation" |
|  "Renewal" Spring 2018 Download Digital Edition PDF |
 "Community" Winter 2017-2018 Download Digital Edition PDF | |
Next Issue: "Habit" | |
Meet our Editors
Xuan | Editor Since 2018
On Names:
Although I’ve lived most of my life going by the pronunciation “Swan,” it was only until I did my Master’s at DRBU that I was introduced by my name’s true pronunciation of 萱 (xuān - first tone in Mandarin Chinese). 萱 is a type of daylily which is edible. My mom would cook it into soups, point to the flowers in the bowl and say: “Look, it’s you.” Terrifying, no?
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.
Sjon | Editor Since 2020
sjon d.l. ljos prefers lowercase letters & rural buildings: both are squat & leave more space for sky