Peter WESSEL (Denmark)

Peter WESSEL is a Danish-born poet, journalist and art-historian who has divided his life between his homes in Madrid and the Medieval French pilgrim’s village of Conques-en-Rouergue (which he considers his second birthplace) since 1981. He teaches a university course titled “Rooted in Song—the Role of African Americans and Immigrant Russian Jews in the Creation of the American Dream” and defines himself as a musician who expresses himself through poetry. Peter’s last two books, Polyfonías (delsatelite, 2008) and Delta (Ediciones de la Torre, 2014) are multilingual poetry collections both of which include recordings of his readings in dialogue with the musicians from Polyfonías Poetry Project. He and his two sidemen have performed at various European music and poetry festivals under the aegis of the Spanish Cervantes Institute.