In this video segment from Poetry Everywhere, the playwright Tony Kushner reads an excerpt from "A Passage to India," celebrating the 1869 opening of the Suez Canal and the opportunity it presented to connect civilizations. [1:46]

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walt whitman

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)