Several of CUE Art Foundation's exhibition curators are writers. CUE hosts a words+music program which includes readings by poets and writers from around the country to supplement its exhibition programming. These events are paired with a musical performance and often times coincide with the opening of exhibitions, when members of both the literary and visual arts communities are present. As some of the authors' works are often dedicated to the exhibiting artists, the readings, in the context of the artworks, deepen an appreciation of both. CUE's words+music Officer & Chief Curator, Marshall Reese has generously curated the 2007/2008 season's 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.