This Week's Oz Poems

There are no more short stories to report on from the 2000 edition of Oziana, but there are two poems!

• The first, a collaboration between Percy Vere and Robin Olderman, is "Oz, the First 100 Years", celebrating just that. Of course, since Percy Vere is the forgetful poet from Grampa in Oz, there are a few blanks that the reader needs to fill in.
• The second is an epic, "The Marvelous Menagerie: A Centennial Oz Story in 100 Haikus" by Atticus Gannaway. It tells the tale of Toto and Pigasus making a brief visit to the Great Outside World—to the Wizard of Oz centennial convention! (I was there, I can attest that every word is true!) It's really fun when Gannaway starts sneaking in rhymes, to make things even more poetically convoluted.

Next week, we officially enter the twenty-first century with the 2001 issue!