Death in the morning
One more time, You rewind another life, Gone at fifty, With just his poems, For his only son to peruse, As last mementoes
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My husband Ericson Acosta
*This article was first published in TATAK KULÊ, Philippine Collegian Alumni Homecoming Souvenir Program, October 7, 2011. Kerima Lorena Tariman served as managing editor of the University of the Philippines student paper Philippine Collegian during AY 1999—2000. A poet and revolutionary, she was slain in an encounter between the New People’s Army and the 79th Infantry Battalion in Silay, Negros Occidental on August 20, 2021. Ericson Acosta, who served as consultant for the National Democratic Front of the Philippines was killed by elements of the 94th and 47th Infantry Battalion after being reportedly abducted in Kabankalan City, Negros Occidental on November 30.
The Ericson Acosta story: Running home, almost free
Text and photos by ELIZABETH LOLARGA CALBAYOG CITY, Samar—Political prisoner Ericson “Eric” Acosta, who had long stopped counting the days he had spent in jail at this city’s sub-provincial jail in Western Samar, was sprung an unanticipated pre-Valentine gift on Thursday: The court allowed the poet-composer and former Philippine Collegian editor to leave jail on
A writer’s voice from Calbayog jail
By PABLO A. TARIMAN
"IT is a long arduous wait for justice and freedom."
Thus says former UP Collegian editor Ericson Acosta describing his one year and eight months in the Calbayog sub-provincial jail in Samar Island. For the record, he is one of the more than 354 political prisoners detained under the new Aquino administration as of August 2011.
