Events: Pastor Rob Bell to speak at TBPAC events

Pastor Rob Bell (Drops Like Stars: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering) will appear at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, 1010 W.C. MacInnes Place, Tampa. Tickets $20; tbpac.org or (813) 229-7827.

Yellow Jacket Press will hold its second annual Florida Poets Happy Hour and Prime Time Show at 6 p.m. Friday at Karma Bar and Cafe, 206 N Morgan St., Tampa. Poets who will read include St. Petersburg poet laureate Peter Meinke, Lisa Birnbaum, Silvia Curbelo, Don Morrill, Ira Sukrungruang, Helen Wallace, Richard Downing and Kate Sweeney. Donation: $5.

Lynne Brown (Gulfport, A Definitive History: Boomtimes, Depression, Wartime) will sign her book at Gulfport's 99th birthday party at 4 p.m. Saturday at Gulfport Historical Museum, 5301 28th Ave. S.

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