Dear friends,

I recently received an AI nudge from our website server that it had been a minute since Two Ponds Press had posted anything at all and hadn’t I better jump on that. This was sandwiched between progressively more urgent pleas from creative director, Anneli Skaar, who also played the AI card, threatening to assault our friends (that’s you) with word salad text (so many adjectives!) generated by Chat GPT if I did not provide a letter. She knows how to get to me. 

This is the Pushing Winter edition of our TPP newsletter. Current non-negotiable fashion accessories this season here in Maine include neon orange because it’s hunting season, which is taken rather seriously here. There are some snowflakes coming down outside my windows and it’s getting dark mighty early. This is the spare and contemplative time of year which we haltingly but gratefully settle into. But we certainly had some fun last summer, including a Pizza and Book party at Two Ponds, featuring visual artist Angela Lorenz . Angela lives in Searsmont, Maine and Bologna, Italy, where we were very fortunate to be given her insider tour last May. Her husband Gianni has run a famous gelateria there for many years and previously had a pizzeria. The man has a way with dough and dairy, we have a wood fired oven and wanted to celebrate Angela’s work. It was a beautiful evening - food for the body and mind.

We have book projects in various states of production to share with you.

Caponigro Conversations



This exceedingly handsome edition brings together the work of father and son Paul and John Paul Caponigro, both master photographers, through images, words and audio recordings - Two Ponds has pressed a vinyl LP! A tiny record label! How cool!

Fifty copies will be produced. All text, images and audio are by Paul Caponigro and John Paul Caponigro. Introduction is by Shannon Perich, Curator, Photographic History Collection, National Museum of American History. Design and typography are by Anneli Skaar. Binding by Amy Borezo of Shelter Bookworks.

A collection of three previously unpublished stories by Margaret Wise Brown, charmingly illustrated by Sarah Horowitz. There is a mouse, a hedgehog and a fish, each with their own adventures, rendered in etching prints with some hand coloring. Design and typography by Anneli Skaar. Letterpress printing by Art Larson at Horton Tank Graphics. Amy Borezo is the binder. 

Katahdin by Stephen Hannock, pays homage to Maine’s greatest mountain, held sacred by the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot nations. Hannock adds his name to a list of some of the last century’s most prominent landscape painters to have captured her - Marsden Hartley, Frederic Church, John Marin, Rockwell Kent, to name a few. Steve drew Katahdin from the co-pilot’s seat of a small airplane as they bounced around the air currents, capturing a unique perspective. He used these as studies for his paintings and to create this edition. There are essays by Franklin Kelly, Chief Curator, National Gallery of Art, and Mikhu Paul, a Native American Maliseet writer, poet, artist and activist, and Véronique Plesch on the use of writing in Hannock's paintings. We are still in the design phase, but look for a spring release.

Proud to collaborate with this talented multimedia artist, sculptor & illustrator Daniel Minter on a project stemming from his forthcoming book, South South. It incorporates essays and poetry by Rachel E. Harding. Publication date late 2026.

And as if all that is not enough, stay tuned for the first of a series of Two Ponds broadsides, pairing artists and writers. The inaugural one pairs artist Stephen Hannock (who comes off the mountain for this) and singer/songwriter, Suzanne Vega. Suitable for collecting! 

What you may not know is that Two Ponds Press not only produces our own books, but we also represent a small select group of book artists with their own imprints. One of these is Canadian Ukrainian artist, Lesia Maruschak. Only 8 copies were produced of her book WO-MAN and only a few remain. Please contact us for more information or to reserve a copy.

WO-MAN grows from a single object that has shaped Maruschak’s entire practice—a vyshyvanka her great-aunt handed to her during a risky trip to Soviet Ukraine in 1979. The blouse, kept safe for generations, becomes the heart of the book: its stitches, frays, and hidden seams tell the story of the women who carried their culture forward when so much was being stripped away. This project connects back to Maruschak’s very first book, made from handmade hemp paper, and forward to the works collectors now know well—TRANSFIGURATION, THIS LAND, and the forthcoming TRANSLATION 19,546. Together, they form a long arc about memory, women’s labour, and how textiles hold the histories we can’t afford to lose. WO-MAN is the quiet beginning of that story, finally brought into the light.

CODEX Book Fair and Symposium 2026 is a potent motivator and Two Ponds will have a table premiering our the new work along with books from Sarah Horowitz’s Wiesedruck Press, Lesia Maruschak’s Ukrainian themed books and Angela Lorenz’s one of a kind pieces. Plan to be in Oakland at the new warmer, dry venue at the Downtown Oakland Marriott Feb 7-9, 2026.