This book is an invaluable resource for any prisoner fighting for his or her freedom. Armed with knowledge unknown by most other clemency applicants, he or she will gain a serious advantage. Smith lays out every aspect of the clemency process, step by step: the relief available, the statutory regulations (for all fifty state jurisdictions as well as federal), the grounds for executive clemency, the self-development, personal growth, and transformation processes, social intelligence, communication skills, clemency campaign strategies, how to prepare a clemency application, examples of successful applications, and much more.

Smith's Guide to Executive Clemency for State and Federal Prisoners

Smith, Zachary A.

Legal Education

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When Zachary A. Smith's father died unexpectedly while Zachary was incarcerated, he received a small inheritance from his father's estate. The State of Missouri filed a civil suit against him under the Missouri Incarceration Reimbursement Act (MIRA). Smith secured a dismissal of the State's suit, but the State appealed and the dismissal was overturned. The court entered judgment against Smith, ordering the Missouri Department of Corrections to collect 90% of any money deposited into his inmate account by friends and family. Seeing that fighting the MIRA case in state court was getting him nowhere, Smith started researching United States Bankruptcy Codes and found a loophole. A fundamental goal of the federal bankruptcy laws enacted by Congress is to give debtors a financial "fresh start" from burdensome debts. In Local Loan Co. v. Hunt, 292 U.S. 234, 244 (1934), the Supreme Court made this point about the purpose of the bankruptcy law: It gives to the honest but unfortunate debtor...a new opportunity in life and a clear field for future effort, unhampered by the pressure and discouragement of preexisting debt. This goal is accomplished through the bankruptcy discharge, which releases debtors from personal liability from specific debts and prohibits creditors from ever taking any action against them to collect those debts. All SMITH'S GUIDES are made to be as helpful as possible (see also "SMITH'S GUIDE to Habeas Corpus Relief for State Prisoners Under 28 U.S.C. §2254," and "SMITH'S GUIDE to Executive Clemency for State and Federal Prisoners"). At the end of each chapter, the reader will find completed examples of the forms required to be filed in order to start their bankruptcy case. The reader will also find blank forms at the end of this book, which may be removed, filled out, and filed with the appropriate bankruptcy court. Of course, this book is not just for the type of debt discussed above, it is for the prisoner (or nonprisoner) who has outstanding debts and wants a fresh start. "SMITH'S GUIDE to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy for Prisoners" is an invaluable resource guide for prisoners and civilians alike, who need financial freedom from their past debts.

Smith's Guide to Chapter 7 Bankruptcy for Prisoners

Law Practice

“Amelia Díaz Ettinger’s book of poems, Speaking at a Time, is a gathering of poems about her father, her daughter, the town of Caguas, and the race track, among other things. These recollections pulse with energy, and they echo the poetry of Lorca and Neruda. This is a strong, first book.”  —Peter Sears, Oregon Poet Laureate

Speaking at a Time; Hablando a la Vez (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Literature & Fiction

Ettinger, Amelia Díaz

Poetry

Provides detailed information and instructions for seeking relief via state habeas petition and for exhausting state-court remedies before proceeding to federal court to file a §2254 petition or an application to file a second or successive habeas petition. Includes state habeas rules and statutes for all 50 states.
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SMITH'S GUIDE to State Habeas Corpus Relief for State Prisoners

Self-Help

“In this rich and remarkably inclusive collection, Matt Schumacher renders forgotten towns un-forgotten. With vivid imagery and music, he re-members, he re-embodies them onto pages of a poetic atlas. Here, a grateful reader also discovers tales about saloons and cemeteries, Great Plains buffalo and a pot-bellied pig, wild huckleberries and the bits of wedding cake fed to a deer. In one of the book’s four sections, Schumacher offers epistolary persona poems that give a panoply of candid and often wrenching histories, laments, confessions, and revelations. The chronological and geographical scope of this collection is impressive. Ghost Town Odes holds an ambitious and admirable trove of poems.” —Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita and author of The Voluptuary and Understory   “When I started reading Matt Schumacher’s poems, I had no idea I’d be getting a lesson in Pacific Northwest history. But what a lesson! From the farcical gold mine at Bourne, Oregon, in the 1800s, to the native villages clustered along the Columbia riverbank before enormous dams built during the last century flooded Celilo Falls, Matt writes with great sensitivity and knowledge of his subjects. Vivid images fuel the imagination with a longing for what once was. Matt knows his history and his poems reflect his research. The collection goes superbly on: There are “The Deep Creek Yuan Gui Speak their Grievance,” “Ballad of a Basque Sheepherder,” and many more, all poignant and delightful, not just for those who appreciate well-written poetry, but also for those who want to learn more about the region’s colorful—and too often tragic—history.” —R. Gregory Nokes, author of Massacred for Gold: The Chinese in Hells Canyon and Breaking Chains: Slavery on Trial in the Oregon Territory

Ghost Town Odes (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Schumacher, Matt

Beaver's Fire: A Regional Portfolio(1970 - 2010). La Grande, OR: Redbat Books, 2016. Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9971549-4-8, 442 pages (7 x 10), 50 images,color covers. This unique source book gathers works first published by various northwest editors and newly-selected for reprinting by independent jurors from over 100 pieces. The portfolio is arranged in reverse chronology and includes: over 50 historical/archival images of editors, writers, poets, books, events, radicals, and photographers; symposia and essays on northwest literature, Chief Joseph speech, William Stafford, and C.E.S. Wood; 1877 Nez Perce War Diary of poet C. E .S. Wood; translations of poems &amp; essay on the most famous Chinese Modernist poet Ai Qing; biographical sketches of Fred Hill, Minor White, C.E.S. Wood, and Nard Jones; reviews of poetry and prose by over twenty Northwest writers; public addresses on Nez Perce myth, regionalism, Wallace Stegner, editing and Oregon literature; interviews with Carolyn Kizer, Ursula LeGuin, and Richard Hugo; and a dialogue on northwest poetics at Wallowa Lake. .

Beaver's Fire: A Regional Portfolio (1970-2010) (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Venn, George

United States

The tale of two young men transported and altered by a foreign conflict, strands of alternate past and future are posed in counterpoint to a fragile reality in Canned Tuna. Highland Vietnam, the Treasure Valley of Idaho and the mouth of the Columbia River provide the materials for a gripping fugue of hope and dread, of the collective wounds of war and the healing power of community.

Canned Tuna

Memmott, David

Literary

The greatest poet of medieval Wales. 
A brilliant and canny poet of love, Dafydd ap Gwilym explores the intensity of erotic desire: its deep seriousness as well as its deep comedy. Although distant in time and circumstance, Dafydd’s work confronts us with a virtuosic strangeness, a directness, and a sense of lived realness. In his poems, he lingers outside a village, loiters in the woods waiting for a tryst that never happens, peers through a window, stumbles in the dark. Despite the centuries and the technological gulfs that separate us, Dafydd’s world is also our world, and his poems, like the best of all poetry, surprisingly modern. With a voice coy, confident, and continually alluring, his poetry beckons and endures.

Unless She Beckons: poems by Dafydd ap Gwilym

Ap Gwilym, Dafydd

"How the hell did we become the way we are? Ask John Morrison. He won't tell you, because he doesn't know, but he will provide you exquisite examples with lyrical grace in poems that work like illustrations that accompany certain words in the dictionary. The ghost of God is here, and memory...that strange harbinger reminding us of what we will become. His poems are a little break from the wind, a pause from the chaos, a two-person picnic as we slowly make our way to the grave."-Carl Adamshick, author of Birches

Monkey Island (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Morrison, John C.

CADENZAS is a work of fiction that narrates a conversation between music and language, with walkins by Dorothy Parker, Dante, Edith Sitwell, J.S. Bach, Qiu Jin, Dmitri Shostakovich, June Jordan. It is Alex Kuo's accumulation of more than eighty years of living, listening and writing on several continents and breathing in the cadences of several languages, including three Chinese dialects.

Cadenzas (Redbat Books Pacific Northwest Writers)

Kuo, Alex

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