Several of CUE Art Foundation's exhibition curators are writers. In the past, CUE has hosted a words+music program which included readings by poets and writers from around the country to supplement its exhibition programming. These events were paired with a musical performance and often times coincided with the opening of exhibitions, when members of both the literary and visual arts communities were present. As some of the authors' works were often dedicated to the exhibiting artists, the readings, in the context of the artworks, deepened an appreciation of both.

CUE's words+music Officer & Chief Curator for the 2007/2008 season, was Marshall Reese.
Prior to that, it was William Corbett. They both generously curated the events with the advisement from CUE's Music & Literary Councils. 

Marshall Reese is a video, media artist and poet, and has developed his practice based on collaboration. As a member of the team Ligorano/Reese, Nora Ligorano and he have worked together for almost 20 years on installations, videotapes, artists books and limited editions. Their work examines contemporary trends in society and the media through the manipulation of images and sound from print, television, internet, and radio. As Risarano, their limited edition series The Pure Products of America investigates the relation of marketing, politics and the selling of organized religion.

Their most recent installation Crater New York, a Drawing Contest, was exhibited at Location 1 in Soho and on the internet in the SLART Gallery in Second Life in September 2007. They have also exhibited at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst (MAK) in Frankfurt, Germany, MIT MediaLab, Museum of Arts & Design, the Neuberger Museum of Art and Lincoln Center. They have received fellowships and funding from the Jerome Foundation, NYFA, NYSCA, the NEA and Art Matters. arshall Reese is the author of two books of poetry, and has edited several publications and magazines. 

William Corbett is a poet, memoirist, art critic and essayist. Owing to his distinct role in developing CUE's literary programs that coincide with specific exhibitions, Mr. Corbett will continue to serve as a member of the Advisory Council for another two seasons. He has written books on New York City literary life, the sculptor John Raimondi and painter Philip Guston. His most recent books are Boston Vermont (Zoland Books, 1999) and his collected essays and reviews, All Prose (Zoland Books, 2001). He frequently publishes poetry and prose in The Boston Phoenix, Modern Painters, Brick and other journals and magazines large and small. Mr. Corbett is Writer-in-Residence at MIT, an editor of Pressed Wafer, and lives in Boston's South End.