Fisher has been a college professor, author, columnist, poet, disc jockey, reporter, actor, and weatherman. He played himself in the 1985 TV movie "California Girls", and starting in 1995, he played the role of Hucklebee in approximately 500 performances of the long-running off-Broadway musical The Fantasticks. He is the author of three works of poetry: a chapbook titled "Remembering Rew", and two full-length collections, "Some Holy Weight in the Village Air" and "Songs from an Earlier Century". He has extensively studied the life and works of Robert Frost, and has taught poetry at the University of Connecticut, New England College, Pace University, and Mercy College.