John Bos is a bi-weekly columnist for the Greenfield (MA) Recorder ("Connecting the Dots") and a contributing writer for Green Energy Times and for Citizen Truth. His op ed articles have appeared in the Springfield (MA) Republican, Worcester (MA) Telegram, the Brattleboro (VT) Reformer. and the Iowa City Press-Citizen. He is the editor of a new children's book "After the Race" (on Amazon). He was the project director and co-editor of "Words to Live By" which he and three other cancer survivors created for the non-profit support agency Cancer Connection. The book features poems and prose pieces by 50 local and nationally acclaimed writers. Authors include Wendell Berry, Lucille Clifton, Jane Kenyon, Ted Kooser and others.
Bos served as Director of Performance Programs for National Public Radio in the early 80's where he earned a Peabody Award for “meritorious service in broadcasting”. Following his NPR tenure, Bos served as the host for Arts America, a weekly cultural television program produced by the United States Information Agency and distributed worldwide.
He was appointed by Kitty Carlisle Hart, Chairperson of the New York State Council on the Arts, as Deputy Director of the agency’s performing arts division in the late 70’s, Bos was in charge of a $15 million budget for grants to dance, music, theater, and presenting organizations. While at NYSCA he created the Presenting Organizations Program to provide funding support directly to nonprofit presenters throughout the state.
In 2007 Bos founded Eventide, an all-volunteer gathering of singers whose primary mission is to sing in small ensembles at the bedsides of the critically and terminally ill. www.eventidesingers.com. On Nov. 3, 2012 Bos presented a TEDx talk about the growth of hospice choirs in the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6LXcwxLe_Q&list
John Bos is a founding board member of the Four Rivers Charter School Educational Foundation in Greenfield, MA, and former Chair of the Shelburne Falls Cultural Council. In 2014 Bos was given the annual Marvin Shippee community service award by the Greater Shelburne Falls Area Business Association.
