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