Irene Munson Rouse is the author of the poetry collections, Petty Street (2009) and Private Mythologies (1999). She was raised in Arlington, and graduated from James Madison College in 1950. Briefly an English teacher and later a children’s librarian, Rouse married, raised a large family of five children, and took up a career as an antiquarian book seller, running a succession of book shops in Fairfax, Falls Church, Alexandria, and the Eastern Shore. She hosted a poetry reading series in her Alexandria shop, “Positively Prince Street,” in the 1970s and ‘80s, and published an anthology of the same name in 1979. In retirement, she took up painting.
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1004 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA
Irene Munson Rouse
1004 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA, USA
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