I fell in love with Barbara’s poetry several years ago during a review at a writers’ conference.  That has not changed.  Beautiful are the words and deep are the thoughts.

Eddie Faye Gates-

Author and Historian,

Tulsa, Ok

Barbara L. Eikner is a new literary voice whose poetry grabs your attention and refuses to let go.  The poetry is written with vigor, panache and wit by a dynamic individual with gifts and talents to match her spiritual commitment. “Dirt and Hardwood Floors” is a dashing debut, not only for the poetic community but also the carpeted corridors of churches, schools and parlor scholars. 

Julia Hare-

The Black Think Tank,

San Francisco, Ca

Eikner has managed to transform fleeting thoughts into brilliant beams of life and enlightenment that bare wide open the soul of African Americans.  Her poetry digs deep yet caresses lightly the plight inherent in the internal, cultural struggle of being African…American …and spiritual beings…entangled by a silken thread with our past and forever grasping for a future in search of self.

Joann G. Loveless-

Grand Basileus-Sigma Gamma Rho,

Pittsburg, Pa

The power lies beneath the words and this voice rises in the air.  A must read for all lovers of poetry young and old.

Emma Rodgers,

Co-Founder Black Images Book Bazaar, 

Dallas, TX