{"id":1356,"date":"2026-03-30T00:16:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1356"},"modified":"2026-03-30T00:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T00:16:25","slug":"pollen-bombing-and-pattern-seeking-the-art-of-the-cento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/?p=1356","title":{"rendered":"Pollen-bombing and Pattern-seeking: The Art of the Cento"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/poetry.arizona.edu\/blog\/art-of-the-cento\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Pollen-bombing and Pattern-seeking: The Art of the Cento\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/poetry.arizona.edu\/sites\/poetry.arizona.edu\/files\/img_20260316_091046_891_0.jpg\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">poetry.arizona.edu<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Pollen-bombing and Pattern-seeking: The Art of the Cento<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Centos are poems wholly composed from existing works, juxtaposing source materials without adding any new language. To make a cento is to release any notions of destinations or goals and to instead trust the unknown as it emerges kinetically. The satsuma is in bloom. It\u2019s the time of year we become one with the oak pollen: I\u2019m pulling strands of it from my hair and my coffee mug. Spring is a season of explosion\u2014things end up where they don\u2019t belong, but this act of collage is an act of creation.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1356\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linguistics.imagodeus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}