Author Archives: theatala

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Caleb Mercado is finishing up his junior year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. For this piece of artwork, he wanted to highlight the struggles of individuality against “robotization” and conformism within modern society.

Nicole Brito, who is completing her junior year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School, is known as the artist among her friends. She paints and sketches in her free time and then writes out stories to match her paintings. This painting is one of her most vivid pieces and was made using acrylic paint andContinue reading “A Heartbroken Memory”

For my fifteenth birthday, I got myself a calorie-tracking app. I had decided that I was going to get skinny that summer and surprise everyone on the first day of school. I knew it wasn’t my best move, but I didn’t care. I longed to fit into my jean shorts from fifth grade. How IContinue reading “Balance”

Louise Glück’s poem “Vespers” (37) emphasizes the disconnect between humans and their creator, God. This disconnect manifests in how both parties fulfill their physical and emotional responsibilities to their creations, with humans nurturing theirs and God neglecting his own.The most consequential difference in adherence to responsibility comes with the physical. The poem’s opening line establishesContinue reading “Responsibility in Louise Glück’s “Vespers””

Haley Bauer is a student and artist finishing up her junior year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. Her digital piece “Coral Mermaid” captures a mermaid sitting on the ocean floor, surrounded by scattered corals and shells. Haley’s love of the ocean and mystical creatures helped to bring this piece to life.

Click below to view short animatic: Sarah Martinez is finishing her junior year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. She wrote the script for Behind Closed Doors, drew every frame of the animatic, and edited everything together herself over the course of about a month.

This is an ekphrastic poem, which is inspired by a work of art. Ariana Bonilla’s “Who Am I to You?” is inspired by Roy Lichtenstein’s charcoal drawing Woman, c. 1949-1951. Who am I to you?Aside from an atomic housewife who answers your every call. Aside from a mere vessel to hold new life. Who amContinue reading “Who Am I to You?”

*This is a poem for two voices, written to be read by two people, sometimes alternating, sometimes simultaneously. The poem shows different viewpoints on the same topic. Ainsley O’Donovan is finishing up her junior year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. “Cardboard Boxes” won first place in the Poem for Two Voices category of theContinue reading “Cardboard Boxes”

*A haiku is a Japanese lyric poem that often refers to something in nature. It comprises seventeen syllables: the first line contains five, the second line contains seven, and the third line contains five. Snowdrops yield to green Blue jays sing the thawing song Springtime’s canvas blooms Mia Fu is a graduating senior at PembrokeContinue reading “Spring is Coming”