My Works, Ye Mighty expands on Christian Bök's conceptual writing projects The Kazimir Effect and The Xenotext in which he seeks to engineer a deathless bacterium so that its DNA might become an archive that stores a poem for eternity. He pairs his meditations on these works with an abundance of imagery. This essay, based on Bök's writer-in-residence presentation at Athabasca University in Canada, is accompanied by a new poem written especially for this book.