Patrick Herron

St Charles Borromeo School, Attended 1977 - 1985, Class of 1985
Holy Cross High School, Attended 1985 - 1989, Class of 1989

UNC, SILS, UNC School of Information and Library Science, NC State

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Attended 2003 - Present, Class of 2005, Master's Degree, Information Science (MSIS) with Comp Sci Minor and Bioinformatics Certificate
North Carolina State University, Attended 1995 - 1997, Bachelor's Degree, Biochemistry/Premed
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, Attended 1989 - 1993, Class of 1993, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy/Cognitive Science

programmer, poet, student

Lucifer Poets

poetry, literary hoaxes, web art, text mining, information synthesis, electronic music, laptop music, bass, guitar, drumming, photography, chess, contemporary art, outsider art, travel, audio mulch, hooch, superflat, wolfli, Bush-bashing, water, WWWv2

Borges, Spicer, Burroughs, MacSweeney, Yasusada, Ashbery, Plato, Feyerabend, Ong, Pessoa, Jeffers, Baraka, Ginsberg, Brecht, Beckett, Eliot, de Quincey, Jaynes, Robert Anton Wilson; Mythical Man Month, People's History of the United States

Kubrick, Herzog, Allen, Welles, Hitchcock, Acconci, Coen, Gilliam, Korine, Baraka, Search and Destroy, Henry Fool, Walker, Vito Acconci's The Red Tapes

Laurie Anderson, Frank Zappa, Magnetic Fields, Fela, Super Furry Animals, The Books, Brian Eno, Mingus, Coltrane, Ligeti, Ornette Coleman, PE, Goldberg Variations, Terry Riley, Fred Frith, Sun Ra, ODB, Pygmy music, and that new Wilco one is impressive

Da Ali G Show, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Muppet Show, Infomercials (otherwise I hate TV)

Gemini

I'm a friggin' award winner: http://tinyurl.com/9dem2/
Buy my damn book: http://proximate.org/tagc/.
A review by Very Important Poet Ron Silliman of a MUCH better book of mine, languishing in unpublished-land: http://tinyurl.com/3e8es
Actually, my puppet wrote that book; he has a flogspot: http://lesters.blogspot.com/
FORMER Carrboro Poet Laureate (phew); (ex?) web artist; graduate
student in information science at UNC Chapel Hill School
of Information and Library Science studying text mining, knowledge discovery and information synthesis in the biomedical sciences. I travel every chance I
get; the goal is to see as much of the world before I shuffle off this, well, you know. We all die sooner than we plan. Volunteering for cooperativeresearch.org. Proximate.org was my first web art project that made the international gallery scene (touch me because I'm relevant). I founded and run the Carrboro Poetry Festival (http://carrboropoetryfestival.org). I have a bio page, of course, for my narcissicm shows no bounds (http://proximate.org/bio/). I'm a daddy now (http://proximate.org/gallery/) and love every minute of it. Daddyism sure beats poetry. The wonder of daddyhood outdoes any of the scary stuff.

Hi.
I want to get to know you.
I am so glad I found you available.
I wish to shake your hand and thank you.
Thanks.
It's great to reach out and finally shake hands with you.
I think of you often.
I miss you often.
I do.
I often think about what it would be like to be here with you.
And now, here I am at last.
Say, do you think I am attractive?
Maybe it's the haircut.
Or perhaps the shape of my nose.
Oh, c'mon.
Stop laughing.
This is not funny and you know it.
You don't see my face, and I'm right here with you?
Of course you do.
I thought sooner or later you'd come to your senses.