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Toby
@tesharpe.bsky.social
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fire princess with a UBC MFA and a weird evil heart. 🌈 writer. find my stuff in Geist, Hey Alma, The Chestnut Review, The Ex-Puritan, etc. Here's a linky-link.
https://ex-puritan.ca/for-my-next-trick/
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tesharpe.bsky.social
Made this gay'n'tiny comic at @ubccrwr.bsky.social and am going to make and post more in 2026: a tiny'n'gay resolution!

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#substack #comics
sleeping with men
tee heckin' hee
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January 27, 2026 at 11:58 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Sometimes you gotta be very angry with what's happened in your personal life, and you gotta write a poem about it years later!

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[POEM] The Friends to Lovers Trope
Everything's auto-fiction, auto-poetry, until it isn't.
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December 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
I remain shockingly talented. Wrote this before I even did my postgrad CRWR vibe, and it's one of the only things from the Before-Times I still enjoy. Do enjoy, alongside me.
#substack #poetry

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émigré
this is an older poem from my workz, initially published in a magazine which now seems to have been wiped clean from the internet? so here it is, immortaliszszed until this website also collapses
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December 2, 2025 at 1:47 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
promoting my own work? chic!

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#substack #poetry
November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Some of y'all might also be losing your minds. Some of you thus might like this poem.

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/cope

#poetry #substack
October 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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elliemaeohagan.bsky.social
Men would rather read Lee Child on the tube than go to therapy
September 5, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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annamerlan.bsky.social
You don’t win an award for being the most not-surprised, is the thing
August 18, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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kasulke.co
WOMEN WANT ME. FISH WANT ME. WE ARE A THROUPLE
July 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
wrote a poem about fooling around with hot bears? big slay

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#poetry #substack #heckindelicious
gone fishin’!
a poem about reawakening, looking back and forward
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August 18, 2025 at 2:05 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Made up this writing prompt at @ubccrwr.bsky.social and still think it's one of my favourites. Check out some more at my substack if you'd like! 😎

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#poetry
August 12, 2025 at 10:21 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
it's causing me a major existential crisis tbh: do I quote MUNA or Britney or the Torah??
jooordan.bsky.social Jordan @jooordan.bsky.social · Aug 5
Selecting the quotes at the beginning of a book to set the stage probably feels soooo good as an author
August 5, 2025 at 1:57 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
I wrote a cento #poem on #substack which is one of my favourites ever, drawing in lines from Mary Oliver, Sappho, Stephen Spender, and more...

Cheeky photo of Vancouver attached to it too, because I can't let go of my UBC-MFA past.
All - for you (A Cento)
Another cento: a poem made up of lines from other works, all cited. Thank you to Tash for giving me the courage to post this one.
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July 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
love poetry swarming outta me, hellishly happy with this one

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#substack #poetry
the almanac of need
let me shazamabam ye with how much i love my man
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July 14, 2025 at 12:31 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
I wrote about the end of days. Maybe you can relate. #horror #substack
Apocalypso Extraordinaire
Armageddon whomst?
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July 2, 2025 at 11:14 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Some lines from a new piece of vulnerable hecking poetry from me. The piece is called The Flop's Song. xo

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#substack #poetry
May 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Incredibly proud of @tanvibhatia.bsky.social -- she's killing it ALL the time, but I feel like every time I open social media lately I see her doing something else cool! Appreciation and adoration post.
February 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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midge.bsky.social
told my friend she was drawing her eyebrows too high and then she looked at me all surprised
February 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Wrote a love story. A love story with zero demonic presences or poltergeists, so I'm really challenging myself here. Check out the #substack post here.

tobysharpe.substack.com/p/you-have-t...
February 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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dollbunyan.bsky.social
if I think about elephants for too long I start crying
February 3, 2025 at 5:13 AM
tesharpe.bsky.social
sharing snippets from my own work? because I'm a poet? wow...

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#substack #poetry #lmao!!
February 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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anthonyhurd.bsky.social
Continued work in progress on this one but nearly completed. 24x30” acrylic on canvas.
February 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
A vision of total neediness from one side of a Facebook chat. New #poetry on my #substack.
Write Back When You Can?
please
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February 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
listening to Denial is a River like it will give me clues to salvation (and it definitely will)
February 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
tesharpe.bsky.social
Depressed in a public place? Me too. #substack #poetry

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a dissertation on being a flop
flopatron flopiana flopalop
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January 31, 2025 at 2:20 PM