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