BILL RATNER

Bill is a published author and one of America's most-heard voices: "Flint," "Ambassador Donnel Udina," movie trailers, Discovery Channel, 9-time winner of The Moth StorySLAMS, 2-time Best of Hollywood Fringe Festival Extension Winner

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Ya gotta love L.A. #poets

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This Thursday May 21 • 4pm • bring a poem for the open mic, and hear some of So. Cal’s most interesting poets: Freemont Theatre - 1000 Fremont Av., Pasadena • enter from rear parking lot. #poetry #lapoetryscene

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They Send Me to the City to Stay with my Auntie

by Bill Ratner VOICEMAIL POEMS · "They Send Me to the City to Stay with my Auntie" by Bill Ratner I hang my jacket in the hallwayher apartme

I am s-o-o-o telephonistically buzzed, rung, and answered! ... I literally phoned it in ... to VoicemailPoems.org

Voicemail Poems

Missed Calls You Actually Want to Hear

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@lidapoet puts on a helluva #poetry show! Come on down to #DTLA Friday night Feb. 6th, 7pm, and hear us fan the Lyrical Flames!

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In my first voiceover class my teacher asked me, “Where did you get that awful accent!?!” I’ve finally gotten paid for my awful accent! @intermission_film @magnoliapics

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For all you old-time radio drama fans, live-stream our Christmas radio plays today! Or watch & listen ever after to yours truly and a cast of marvelous voice actors in these live radio recreations ... https://www.youtube.com/@reps-online/streams

REPS Online

Join us in sharing the fun as we seek to preserve and protect the classic shows of the past, and to seek the best of audio entertainment tod

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Had this weird-azz dream about almost becoming a comedy star. Thanks to Martha, Editor of The Soliloquist Journal, my poem: “At a Theater Near You” is up in cyberworld!  

facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61575200982690

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Honored/Jazzed/Psyched to have my poems up today @elj_editions_ltd • Thanks Diane, Alisha, et al @EmergeJournal

https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/if-i-could-change-my-story/

https://emergeliteraryjournal.com/what-can-i-get-from-a-tree/

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H-U-G-E thanks to Clare McQueen of McQueen's Quinterly for nominating "Killer Art" for Best-of-the-Net!

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… Enough said …

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A glad night for poets @nicelle_davis Penguin Noir book release @beyondbaroque @rentpoet @caffeinatedcat @hyperphantom

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Voiceover Lab Voicing Corporate Narration with Bill Ratner

SYNOPSISCorporate narration is a somewhat "under-the-radar" niche of voiceover and there are many opportunities for voice actors to thrive i

Voxers, Screamers, and Mumblers: 

I'm rapping knuckles in online voiceover class for those interested in narration. Tomorrow 9/23: Corporate, next Tuesday 9/30: Documentary.

As James Earl Jones said: "Beware the Vox, Luke."

@sagaftraFOUND #voiceover 

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Tomorrow afternoon at 5 in Pasadena's venerable Freemont Centre Theatre 8/21/25 I'll be reading some #poetry with the wonderful Gerda Govine. Enter theater from the rear parking lot - we're in the SPARC Centre Gallery (So. Pas. Arts Council.) C'mon down!

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Madame Recamier by Bill Ratner | Urban Ganges

Madame Recamier René Magritte was fourteen when his mother drowned herself in the Sambre River hooded in crepe smelling of old clothes and m

Who would have imagined that my poetry would end up on a reed diffuser perched atop a toilet?!?  (I always wondered why those johns smelled so good …) I’m honored that René Magritte and I can help the world smell just a little bit better …

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COME TO V/O CLASS!

Voiceover Lab Documentary Narration with Bill Ratner

SYNOPSISWith the rise of cable TV & streaming platforms, documentaries have reached new heights of popularity and critical acclaim. The

Voice-Masters!! Come on over (virtually) to the Screen Actors Guild-AFTRA Foundation Don La Fontaine Voiceover Lab for my narration classes this Wednesday afternoon July 9th & next Wednesday afternoon at 2pm.

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Big thanks to Brian Harman - https://brianrharman.com/ @BeachChairPress for pubbing my L.A. poems

https://beachchairpress.com/issues/issue-6/bill-ratner/

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This Friday night, May 16th, 8:30pm, come on out to Santa Monica to hear/see live music, poetry, wise words & silliness + open mic 🎶