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DIASPORA POETRY - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.


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  1. daddy issues
  2. entire poem rhymes
  3. oranges
  4. lessons about self-love
  5. uses multiple languages
  6. olives
  7. something about branches or roots
  8. bombs/drones
  9. references edward said, mahmoud darwish, or ghassan kanafani
  10. grandmother’s hands
  11. borders/ immigration
  12. something feminist
  13. homeland
  14. uses a 3+ syllable political term
  15. nour/light/ flame/lantern
  16. names a specific plant
  17. large body of water
  18. smell of mom’s cooking
  19. fragrant/ perfume/aroma
  20. spices
  21. surveillance
  22. rose water
  23. war
  24. heart/soul
  25. the poem is really just a sentence
  26. mad at america/white people
  27. one word line
  28. pomegranates
  29. bird metaphor