Gopi (Telugu: ???.????; born 25 June 1948) is an eminent Indian poet, literary critic in Telugu and Sahitya Akademi Award recipient.
He has also been in the University system as a professor and Dean since 1974, until retiring in 2008.
He has also held the post of the Vice Chancellor of Potti Sreeramulu Telugu University, Hyderabad.
A humanist to the core, Gopi exudes nativity and national outlook in his poetry.
He has published 50 books including 21 poetry collections, 7 essay collections, 3 research works, 5 travelogues, 5 translations, 2 commentaries, 3 column writings, apart from 5 text books for schools and for adult education projects.
His poetry collections have been translated into several languages like Hindi, English, Gujarati, Nepali, Tamil.
Malayalam, Marathi, Konkani.
Dogri, Maithili, Kannada, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Oriya, Sindhi, Urdu, Assamese, Meitei, Bengali, Bodo, Kashmiri, Santali, Rajasthani, German, Russian and Persian.
His notable works are ‘Kalanni Nidra Ponivvanu’ (I Will Not let Time Sleep 1998); ‘Naneelu’ (The Little Ones 1998) and ‘Jala Geetham’ (Water Song - a long poem 2002).