A place to discuss speculative poetry, exchange market info related to poetry, and post spurious efforts at poetry. Trying to string together your one-word posts is so much more pleasant and relevant than reading a discussion between one of our major speculative poets and one of our larger genre publishers. That wasn't a discussion, that was a catfight. Well, I return from the weekend to my web access at work, and find the the Boston Lapine grudge match heating up again. It is getting kind of old, but the reality of the situation is that all the parties are right.
Editor publishers have all kinds of hurtles to get over each time they put out an issue - true.
Authors do have to wait a long time to see payment, and ofter feel obligated, whether for financial reasons or not, to querie upon the status of things. It seems to me like a simple matter of communication. I've experienced the same lack of communication from editors myself over the years. With the advent of email, I see no excuse on the part of either party to communicate, assuming one has email. And yes, DNA publications has been one of those I've had to queries.