Fates: The Medea Notebooks; Starfish Wash-up; and overflow of an unknown self

For our fourth Tribus, we present Fates, in which three poets—Ann Pedone, Katherine Soniat, and D.M. Spitzer—weave destinies by reimagining stories from the past. The books of Fates resist retellings. Instead, they reopen stories we have been carrying with us. They explore the limits and possibilities of form, testing the poetic line. And they invite new voices to disturb the universe. Ann Pedone’s The Medea Notebooks reimagines and reworks the ancient Greek story as three “Medeas”: the cha...