Tino Villanueva’s collection of poems titled So Spoke Penelope (2013) vocalizes the two decades of longing of Penelope for her husband Odysseus to return home to Ithaca. Through mellow imagery and frequent alliterative variations on the theme of waiting, Villanueva aims to give voice to the female character whose story and feelings Homer paid but little attention to and that is gradually entering the limelight of modern literature. The study explores the thirty-two poems of the collection as a whole and separately, focusing on the subject that Penelope emerges to be. Defined by her desire of being reunited with happiness and her husband, Penelope recounts, in these poems and in an endless game of past and future, her days of loneliness, the ebbs and flows of her hopes, her doubts, her desperation, her faith. A woman, a lover, a mother, a suppliant before gods, and the Queen of Ithaca, she exposes the process of weaving her subject around her desire in a future perfect mode: wishing upon the future for what she had in the past. Villanueva traces this process, counting the years, just as Penelope would, and foregrounding the Homeric trope of weaving not as a trick to fend off suitors but as the ongoing process of reaffirming one’s subject, of telling one’s story. The poetic monologue that traces this story is explored then as one that allows the reader to gaze into the subject of Penelope and be gazed back at, captivated, in return, by the web of her becoming.