diff --git a/bird.cabal b/bird.cabal
--- a/bird.cabal
+++ b/bird.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Name:                 bird
-Version:              0.0.17
+Version:              0.0.18
 Build-type:           Simple
 Synopsis:             A simple, sinatra-inspired web framework.
 Description:          Bird is a hack-compatible framework for simple websites.
@@ -19,5 +19,5 @@
   
 library
   build-depends: haskell98, MissingH >= 1.1.0.3, mtl >= 1.1.0.2, process, containers, parsec >= 2.1.0.1, bytestring, base >= 4.0 && < 5, hack >= 2009.10.30, hack-handler-happstack, data-default >= 0.2, rallod 
-  exposed-modules: Bird, Bird.Logger, Bird.Config, Bird.Request, Bird.Reply, Bird.Request.QueryStringParser, Bird.BirdResponder, Bird.Translator, Bird.Translator.Hack
+  exposed-modules: Bird, Bird.Logger, Bird.Config, Bird.Request, Bird.Reply, Bird.Request.QueryStringParser, Bird.Request.UrlencodedFormParser, Bird.BirdResponder, Bird.Translator, Bird.Translator.Hack
   hs-source-dirs: src/
diff --git a/readme.markdown b/readme.markdown
--- a/readme.markdown
+++ b/readme.markdown
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@
       body "These aren't the droids you're looking for. Move along."
       status 404
 
+    post ["jedi"] = do
+      name <- param "name"
+      teacher <- param "teacher"
+      case teacher of 
+        Just "Yoda" -> body "The force is strong with this one!"      >> status 201
+        _           -> body "Sorry. The force is not with this one."  >> status 400 
+
+
     get ("force":xs) = do
       body $ "May the force be with you " ++ (join ", " xs) ++ "!"
 
@@ -70,6 +78,18 @@
         Server: Happstack/0.5.0.2
 
         May the force be with you Han, Chewie!
+
+    
+    λ curl -i -X POST http://localhost:3000/jedi -d name=Luke -d teacher=Yoda
+        
+        HTTP/1.1 201 Created
+        Connection: close
+        Content-Type: text/html
+        Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 21:38:11 GMT
+        Server: Happstack/0.5.0.2
+
+        The force is strong with this one!
+    
 
     λ curl -i http://localhost:3000/droids
 
diff --git a/src/Bird/Request/UrlencodedFormParser.hs b/src/Bird/Request/UrlencodedFormParser.hs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/Bird/Request/UrlencodedFormParser.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+module Bird.Request.UrlencodedFormParser(
+  parseUrlencodedForm
+) where
+
+import Bird.Request.QueryStringParser
+
+parseUrlencodedForm = parseQueryString
diff --git a/src/Bird/Translator/Hack.hs b/src/Bird/Translator/Hack.hs
--- a/src/Bird/Translator/Hack.hs
+++ b/src/Bird/Translator/Hack.hs
@@ -9,7 +9,8 @@
 import Bird.Request
 import Bird.Reply
 import Bird.Request.QueryStringParser
-import Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 (pack)
+import Bird.Request.UrlencodedFormParser
+import Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 (pack, unpack)
 
 instance BirdReplyTranslator Hack.Response where
   fromBirdReply r = 
@@ -26,14 +27,21 @@
     Request {
       verb = hackRequestMethodToBirdRequestMethod $ Hack.requestMethod e
     , path = split '/' $ Hack.pathInfo e
-    , params = parseQueryString $ Hack.queryString e
-    , rawRequestUri = (Hack.pathInfo e) ++ maybeQueryString e
+    , params = parsedParams
+    , rawRequestUri = (Hack.pathInfo e) ++ maybeQueryString
     }
     where
-      maybeQueryString e =
+      maybeQueryString =
         if Hack.queryString e /= ""
         then "?" ++ Hack.queryString e
         else ""
+      parsedQueryString = parseQueryString (Hack.queryString e)
+      parsedUrlencodedForm = 
+        if   (Hack.requestMethod e == Hack.POST || Hack.requestMethod e == Hack.PUT) && 
+             lookup "Content-Type" (Hack.http e) == Just "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
+        then parseQueryString (unpack $ Hack.hackInput e)
+        else []
+      parsedParams = parsedQueryString ++ parsedUrlencodedForm
 
 
 hackRequestMethodToBirdRequestMethod rm =