Volume 2 of the anthology “Poetry Forum” includes poems by 200 contemporary poets. A special feature of this volume is that it also contains poems by departed poets, collected in the second section. Several of our friends passed away while working on the 2nd volume of the anthology, leaving their manuscripts to the editorial board. Their poems are given in the first section, and the symbol ☼ is placed in front of the surname. The anthologies “Reference Point” and “Poetic Forum” in two volumes can rightfully be considered a three-volume set of Russian poetry in St. Petersburg, reflecting not only the space of poetry in its diversity, but also the worldview. The compiler of the biobibliographic reference book in these anthologies is Nikolai Butenko.