So Spoke Penelope—three words profound and powerful enough to take us back to Homer, The Odyssey, the Queen and King of Ithaca, three words that entice readers to embark on exploring Penelope. In his latest volume of poems, Tino Villanueva proffers a version of Penelope that is both familiar and unknown. Regardless of whether they know her or not, readers are invited to listen to her voice and discover her anew and in depth. Stripped of guises, Villanueva’s Penelope is (im)perfect and relatable, a self-aware woman—humane. Drawing on various poems from the collection and focusing on Penelope’s own poetic voice, the present study will explore the female figure through two lenses: first, through the representation of Penelope as an authoritative figure and assertive woman who speaks her mind and, second, through the image of Penelope as an embodiment of unconditional love and devotion—a woman who communicates her thoughts and inner feelings, while recounting her own story of love, immeasurable hope, and despair. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions between these two lenses, this chapter aims to unravel the way(s) Villanueva manages to reconcile them, investing Penelope with passion, patience, and faithfulness. Viewing Villanueva’s collection as a form of translation, as a motivated transformative interpretive act in the Venutian sense (2019), this study ultimately examines the Chicano poet’s (re)imagination and transformation of Penelope as an enlightening and enriching conversation on her persona, as an active agent who weaves her life and her art together in the loom of herstory.