English at EPCC

June is Audiobook Month! 🎧📚✨

Whether you’re commuting, studying, cleaning, walking across campus, or relaxing at home, audiobooks make it possible to carry stories with you wherever you go. 🌤️☕

This month, consider trying a new genre, revisiting a favorite book in audio form, or supporting authors and narrators whose voices deserve to be heard.

What audiobook will you listen to? 💫

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

A month for celebrating love, identity, friendship, creativity, and the freedom to be unapologetically yourself. 💌

Pride can look like many things: finding comfort in your favorite book, expressing yourself through art, discovering community, or simply feeling safe enough to exist as you are.

Every story matters, and every voice adds color to the world around us.

This month, we celebrate LGBTQ+ authors, creators, students, and
communities whose words and experiences continue to inspire courage, empathy, and change! 🫶

Stay kind, stay curious, and keep creating. 🌸✨

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” — Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman’s poetry reshaped the way we understand voice, identity, and the beauty of everyday life. Through works like Leaves of Grass, he wrote with openness and intensity, capturing the vastness of the human experience—grief and joy, solitude and connection, the individual and the collective all at once.

His writing invites readers to see themselves as part of something larger, reminding us that ordinary moments can carry extraordinary meaning when observed with care. Whitman’s legacy endures as a celebration of self-expression and the shared rhythm of humanity.

🔅Summer I classes begin at EPCC!

A new session brings new momentum—fresh courses, focused goals, and another step forward in each student’s academic journey. Whether you’re building credits, exploring a new subject, or staying on track for graduation, this term is a chance to reset and refocus.

Memorial Day is a day of remembrance, reflection, and gratitude. It honors the lives of those who gave everything in service to their country, and it holds space for the families and communities who carry their memory forward.

Beyond the long weekend, it is a moment to pause and recognize the cost of freedom, and to remember that every name lost represents a story, a family, and a legacy that deserves to be held with care.

Sherlock Holmes Day celebrates one of literature’s most enduring minds —a character defined not by guesswork, but by observation, logic, and relentless curiosity. Across the cases written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Holmes reminds readers that truth is often hidden in plain sight, waiting for someone patient enough to notice the details others overlook.

More than a detective, Holme represents the power of thinking differently —of slowing down, questioning assumptions, and trusting reason over rumor. His stories continue to invite readers into a world where every clue matters and every mystery has a method waiting to be uncovered.

Today we celebrate achievement, resilience, and new beginnings. 🎓✨

Commencement marks more than the end of a chapter. It reflects the effort, persistence, and growth that brought you here. Every assignment, every late night, and every revision contributed to this moment.

To all graduates, your work has paid off, and this milestone is well earned. Congratulations, Class of 2026!

“Yo fui la más callada de las mujeres… pero también fui la que más gritó por dentro.” — Julia de Burgos

The work of Julia de Burgos continues to echo as both poetry and protest. Writing in the early 20th century, she carved out space for identity, freedom, and self-definition in a world that often tried to confine all three. Her voice moves between tenderness and defiance, asking readers to consider what it means to belong —to a place, to a language, and to oneself.

Through her poetry, Burgos challenges us to look inward and outward at once: to honor heritage while also reclaiming individuality. Her words remain a powerful reminder that writing can be both deeply personal and profoundly political.

✍🏽 Our students have been writing — and now they're sharing their voices with the world. 🌎

Watch these talented writers from Professor Ramírez's class bring their original stories to life, one minute at a time. We are so incredibly proud of the creativity, courage, and heart in every single piece. This is what happens when you give writers a space to truly own their work.

Inspired? Join us this Summer or Fall and find your voice, too. English 2307 courses are open for enrollment — and yes, this could be you. 🎬📖

👉 Register at go.epcc.edu/RegisterNow

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