Best Hal Nesbitt Podcasts (2025)

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Geoffrey Hill's "Genesis" 4:03

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In today’s poem, a young Geoffrey Hill is looking for a story to believe in. Happy reading. Known as one of the greatest poets of his generation writing in English, and one of the most important poets of the 20th century, Geoffrey Hill lived a life dedicated to poetry and scholarship, morality and faith. He was born in 1932 in Worcestershire, Engla…

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Safe Catheter Connections and New Techniques (Guest: Aisha Shaikh, MBBS) 35:08

22h ago35:08

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Host Dr. Tushar Chopra and guest Dr. Aisha Shaikh discuss the importance of good techniques for connecting and disconnecting HD catheters, review catheter locking solutions and novel caps, and consider new data released since the 2019 KDIGO guidelines.By American Society of Nephrology

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Prince Hal's soliloquy from Henry IV, pt.1 ("herein will I imitate the sun") 5:33

2d ago5:33

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In today’s poem, Shakespeare puts the theatre in political theater via a candid moment with the future King Henry V in Henry IV pt. 1, Act 1, Scene 2. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Phineas Fletcher's "A Litany" 2:40

5d ago2:40

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Today’s poem is a short meditation on grief made enduringly-famous after Orlando Gibbons set it to music. You can hear an arrangement of that piece here. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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EP&R Episode Two 11:41

7d ago11:41

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What resources has ASN developed to help the nephrology community prepare for emergencies? Host Dr. Srinath Yadlapalli talks with Dr. Jeffrey Silberzweig and Sara Brady, RN, as they explore what is unique to nephrology practices in facility preparedness.By American Society of Nephrology

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Richard Wilbur's "The Writer" 5:46

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Today’s poem goes out to 6-year-od girls and their dads. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Alfred Tennyson's "In Memoriam..." 1-3 4:50

9d ago4:50

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In today’s poem, a young Tennyson begins the long wrestling with grief. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Kenn Nesbitt's "Our Teacher's Not a Zombie" 1:41

12d ago1:41

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Today’s poem may or may not be based on actual events. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Donald Hall's "An Old Life" 4:08

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In the latter years of his career and life, Donald Hall became something of an expert on growing old (his essay collections Essays After Eighty and A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety are a breathtaking dissertation on the subject), and in today’s poem we get a glimpse of his early apprenticeship in the art. Happy reading. This is a public e…

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The Infection Prevention & Transitions of Care Series: Catheter Care in Hemodialysis (Guest: Namrata Krishnan, MBBS) 31:14

15d ago31:14

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In this episode, host Dr. Tushar Chopra and guest Dr. Namrata Krishnan will discuss how to safely connect and disconnect HD catheters, common myths about catheter care in hemodialysis, and showering with a dialysis catheter.By American Society of Nephrology

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Gwendolyn Brooks' "The Bean Eaters" 4:47

16d ago4:47

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In today’s poem, better is a dinner of herbs where love and memory are, than great riches. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Lucy Maud Montgomery's "A Request" 2:33

19d ago2:33

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Today’s poem is channeling Anne Shirley in the autumn of her years. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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EP&R Episode One 15:32

21d ago15:32

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In this first episode, host Srinath Yadlapalli, MD, MBBS, speaks with Jeffrey Silberzweig, MD, FASN, and Sarrah Johnson, DNP, MBA, RN, about emergency preparedness and response in kidney care during the COVID-19 pandemic.By American Society of Nephrology

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Linda Pastan's "Something About the Trees" 3:54

21d ago3:54

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Today’s poem takes full advantage of the pantoum form’s naturally-contemplative structure–the repeating lines carrying us back and forth between past, present, and an undetermined future. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/sub…

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Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer" 3:40

23d ago3:40

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In today’s poem, Kenyon wrestles with the Solomonic thesis that “the end of a thing is better than its beginning.” Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Ogden Nash's "The People Upstairs" 2:03

26d ago2:03

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Noisy upstairs neighbors have been consternating mankind for as long as second-floors have existed. The all-too-familiar phenomenon has inspired novels, movies, Tom Waits songs, and even a poem or two–like today’s. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit da…

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Outcomes of Initiating Peritoneal Dialysis Versus Hemodialysis in Severe, Symptomatic Kidney Failure 3:55

27d ago3:55

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This podcast discuss findings from a prospective cohort of patients with severe and symptomatic ESKD requiring an urgent start of HD or PD owing to uremic syndrome, where both modalities offered similar outcomes.By American Society of Nephrology

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Predictors of Kidney Outcomes in C3 Glomerulopathy and Idiopathic Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis 3:09

28d ago3:09

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In this podcast, Dr. Ghaddar summarizes the main findings from her study on "Clinical and Histologic Predictors of Kidney Outcomes in C3 Glomerulopathy and Idiopathic Membranoproliferative Glomerulonephritis" on behalf of her colleagues.By American Society of Nephrology

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Emily Dickinson's "How soft a Caterpillar steps —" 3:57

28d ago3:57

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Philosopher Thomas Nagel famously argued that it is impossible to know what it’s like to be a bat. Dickinson, on the other hand, claims to know what caterpillars care (or don’t care) about. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/s…

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Randall Jarrell's "The Lost World" 9:34

1M ago9:34

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Today’s poem is the first half of Randall Jarrell’s reverie about his Los Angeles childhood–and one of the most effortless examples of terza rima in all of English poetry. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Rudyard Kipling’s “The Ballad of the Clampherdown” 5:22

1M ago5:22

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Today’s poem is the satirical saga of an anachronistic naval battle. Heave ho and happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Fire of Drift-wood" 5:46

1M ago5:46

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Nothing feels better and hurts worse than nostalgia. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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nephSAP Guest Editor Interview: Parathyroidectomy for Treatment of Hyperparathyroidism in Chronic Kidney Disease 29:06

1M ago29:06

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Alice Sheridan, MD, FASN, and Martina McGrath, MD, FASN, speak with guest editors Daniel W. Coyne, MD, and Morgan B. Schoer, MD, about their editorial "Parathyroidectomy for Treatment of Hyperparathyroidism in CKD" from nephSAP Volume 24, Number 3.By American Society of Nephrology

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Miroslav Holub's "Napoleon" 2:00

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Today’s brief poem goes out to teachers everywhere as they return to work. Good luck and happy reading. “Poet Seamus Heaney described Holub’s writing as ‘a laying bare of things, not so much the skull beneath the skin, more the brain beneath the skull; the shape of relationships, politics, history; the rhythms of affections and disaffection; the eb…

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John Keats' "To Sleep" 2:56

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“To die, to sleep.” Sometimes the space between the two seems as slight as that intervening comma. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt..." 7:14

1M ago7:14

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I might say today’s poem is all subtext–if it weren’t for all the text. Ambiguous praise, sincere romantic angst, just the right amount of bitter wit: this sonnet has it all. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Live: William Carlos Williams' "The Fool's Song" 15:42

1M ago15:42

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This special, live edition of The Daily Poem was recorded at the Close Reads 10th Anniversary celebration last weekend in Concord, NC. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Prize Jelly" 2:58

2M ago2:58

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Best known as the author of The Yearling and Cross Creek, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings enjoyed a long side-hustle as an occasional poet. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Nephrology in the Era of McCarthyism: Heroes and Villains 44:03

2M ago44:03

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Andrew J. Cohen, MD, FASN, leads the discussion on McCarthyism and the consequences that doctors leading the field of nephrology faced for their political ties and activism. Guests: Merlin Chowkwanyun, PhD, MPH, Kevin Lemley, MD, PhD, and Leon Fine, MD.By American Society of Nephrology

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Malcolm Guite's "Transfiguration" 5:19

2M ago5:19

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Today’s poem comes from Guite’s excellent collection, Sounding the Seasons (now in a new edition with over 100 sonnets!). Blessed feast and happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Terrence Hayes’ “The Same City” 3:36

2M ago3:36

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Hayes has said he longs for a language that can circumvent idea and communicate pure emotion—in today’s poem that quest is dramatized in a powerful way. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe…

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Billy Collins' "On Turning Ten" 2:48

2M ago2:48

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Happy tenth birthday to the Close Reads podcast, and happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Socioeconomic Disparities in Preemptive Kidney Transplant Rates in Children 6:14

2M ago6:14

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This episode discusses a retrospective single-center study examined the effects of socioeconomic status on preemptive kidney transplantation in children.By American Society of Nephrology

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Philip Appleman's "Anniversary" 2:17

2M ago2:17

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Today’s poem is one of “promises kept, and / promises / still to keep.” Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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John Donne's "The Anniversary" 3:24

2M ago3:24

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Today’s poem looks forward to a long and prosperous “reign.” Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Rhina P. Espaillat's "Gardening" 4:23

2M ago4:23

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This week’s poems are arranged around the themes of retrospection and anniversaries in honor of the Close Reads Podcast celebrating its tenth year. Today, we have Rhina Espaillat turning over rich soil. Happy reading! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.s…

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Perceptions of Future Earnings Among Nephrology Fellows 3:03

2M ago3:03

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In this podcast, Drs. Raslan and Triozzi summarize the main findings from their study on "Assessing Current Nephrology Fellows' Perceptions of Future Earnings as Attending Physicians" on behalf of their colleagues.By American Society of Nephrology

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Carole Boston Weatherford's "Sidewalk Chalk" 3:30

2M ago3:30

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Today’s poem is a little hopscotch down memory lane. Happy reading. Weatherford is author of over seventy books including fiction, non-fiction, and poetry inspired, she says, by “family stories, fading traditions, and forgotten struggles that center on African American resistance, resilience, remarkability, rejoicing and remembrance.” This is a pub…

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From the Shire to the Senate: The Big Beautiful Bill's Impact on Kidney Health Policy (Policy Update July 2025) 22:21

2M ago22:21

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How could H.R. 1: One Big Beautiful Bill Act, impact kidney health policy? Hosts Tod Ibrahim and David White take the journey — Tolkien style.By American Society of Nephrology

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Wendell Berry's "A Parting" 3:23

2M ago3:23

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Today’s bittersweet poem glimpses the life of Arthur Rowanberry across time and beyond. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson

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Karina Borowicz's "September Tomatoes" 4:06

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Karina Borowicz was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts. She earned a BA in history and Russian from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from the University of New Hampshire. Borowicz spent five years teaching English in Russia and Lithuania, and has translated poetry from Russian and French. Her first collection of poetry, The Bees Are Waiti…

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Robert Graves' "Epitaph on an Unfortunate Artist" 2:59

2M ago2:59

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Today’s poem is a cautionary tale about achieving popular successes. Happy reading. “Mark Ford summarized Graves’s ‘wholesale rejection of 20th-century civilization and complete submission to the capricious demands of the Goddess’ with a quote from The White Goddess: ‘Since the age of 15 poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentiona…

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William Wordsworth's "The Tables Turned" 5:49

2M ago5:49

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Today’s poem is an invitation to an encounter with the Real. Happy reading. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribeBy Sean Johnson