Flower Girls is a collection of forty poems and art pieces that use flowers as analogies for women and women's experiences. The poems use a range of flowers to explore topics such as motherhood, sexual assault, loneliness, LGBTQ issues, menopause, loneliness and youth.

The seven artists who contributed to the book each interpreted the poems with their own personal artwork, using a range of media including watercolor, pen, pencil, digital design and even wild mushroom ink.

An example poem:

Grandma Iris

She had words like broadswords,
So jagged and unbending
For someone who carried
Such delicate beauty.
All my life she took turns
Stabbing and forgiving me.

Flower Girls is Alicia Bayer's third poetry collection. Her first two poetry books were Crazy Broken Thing and Slut Shamed: Inappropriate Feminist Poems. She is also the author of two children's poetry books, A Is For Acorns (A Foraging Alphabet Book) and Poems From Under a Toadstool, in addition to books about foraging elderberries and acorns, and two homeschooling books. She has published the free, nonprofit nature magazine Wild Kids Magazine for children and their grown ups for over six years. She and her family run a free community arts center out of a 126 year old church they purchased in their small town in 2020.

You can see more of Alicia's poetry on Facebook @CrazyBrokenThing.

Flower Girls was funded in part with a grant from the Southwest Minnesota Arts Council made possible by the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.